With 80 percent of the vote counted late on Monday night, Duterte had 13. Roxas trailed with just over 23 percent.
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The business group said the partial and unofficial results from the Commission on Elections convincingly reflect the will of the electorate.
It is not clear when Mr Duterte’s victory will be officially declared but he is expected to take office on 30 June.
He has been compared to U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump because of his outsider status and no-nonsense comments.
To see the shocking clip, ch-ch-check it out (below).
His vows to kill tens of thousands of criminals were embraced by voters who felt extreme measures were needed to tame rampant crime and corruption.
(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez). Front-running presidential candidate Mayor Rodrigo Duterte gestures during a news conference shortly after voting in a polling precinct at Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School, Matina district, his hometown in Davao city…
In Saturday’s campaign speech, Duterte promised to “do just what I did as mayor” if elected. Duterte, who is also a lawyer, is heading to be the 16 president of the Philippines.
Voters also cast ballots for 300 lawmakers and about 18,000 local government officials. Duterte was perceived to be the anti-establishment candidate in a country frustrated with the slow pace of change and a small clique from the political elite in power for years.
Duterte’s lead has concerned the ruling party so much that, a few days before the poll, the outgoing President Benigno Aquino called for the four other presidential candidates in the race to unite against the mayor, for the good of the country.
Duterte caused further disgust in global diplomatic circles with a joke that he wanted to rape a “beautiful” Australian missionary who was killed in a 1989 Philippine prison riot.
Duterte’s incendiary rhetoric and advocacy of extrajudicial killings to stamp out crime and drugs have alarmed many who hear echoes of the Southeast Asian country’s authoritarian past.
But that was followed by another of those hyperboles that gave helped him win the presidency. Monday’s presidential vote was the 11th election that the Duterte has fought, and the 11th that he has won.
The display of emotion, caught on video and photos and posted on Facebook, showed a starkly different man from the Duterte that critics have dubbed a “butcher” for advocating the murder of drug traffickers and other criminals. “I have no patience, I have no middle ground, either you kill me or I will kill you idiots”.
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He said Tuesday it would be up to them to fix relations with him, while also indicating he was prepared to hold direct talks with China over a highly sensitive territorial dispute in the South China Sea. China, he said, could shoot him and turn him into a national hero.
