“Because of you our business is booming and it has been a big help to our family”, said Lovella Quino, a shop vendor who was selling Duterte mugs, stickers and plates.
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The former lawyer has vowed to introduce executions by hanging. “(Mr.) Yasay was my roommate in law school and he has told me he has a commitment for a teaching job in the Unites States, but if he accepts the temporary position then I will assign him to DFA”.
Duterte will be sworn in as president on June 30.
Smoking in restaurants and hotels will also be banned.
Meanwhile, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and the influential Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said they would oppose the return of capital punishment which was abolished in 2006.
Duterte won election last week after campaigning on promises to carry out a harsh crackdown on crime during his first six months in office.
Duterte said Sunday his “shoot-to-kill” orders would be given for those involved in organised criminals or who resisted arrest.
“As long as the requirements of the law are there, if you try to evade arrest, refuse arrest… and you put up a good fight or resist violently, I will say: ‘Kill them'”.
“But I gave him an inkling that, well, I would agree to just go with you”, the outspoken mayor of southern Davao City added.
It was time to put an end to hostilities with the CPP and its armed wing the New People’s Army, Duterte said, which has been embroiled in decades of on-off fighting with government troops in the south and east of the country that has killed 40,000 people.
“The small-fry criminals will disappear without their big fish protectors and sharks up high in the bureaucracy and military and police organization”, it said.
“I need the military to pitch”.
“I’m asking point blank America, are you with us?”
Tough talk notwithstanding, Duterte must also put his money were his mouth is.
Although Duterte was cleared, 21 high-ranking police officials who were not covered by the doctrine were found guilty of “simple neglect of duty” by the Ombudsman in 2012 for failing to stop death squad assaults in their areas that killed 720 people from 2005 to 2008.
The NDFP official said that another option was for both parties to reposition all their forces to avoid hostilities during the ceasefire and the negotiations.
Duterte allso promised to improve his own behavior, having been heavily criticized during the election campaign for making tasteless jokes and swearing profusely.
“No more. That’s enough”, Duterte said when asked about the planned trip, pointing out that he had already sent the letter.
Duterte will choose the next chief of the Philippine National Police from three from among three prospects who had served as police director of Davao City – Chief Supt. Talks between the Communists and the government stalled during the term of the outgoing president Benigno Aquino, Corazon’s son. Though taxi drivers still grumble about the 60 kilometer-an-hour (37-mile-an-hour) speed limit, many citizens in this city of roughly 1.5 million people seem comfortable enough with Mr. Duterte’s rules.
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He said: “This is a new government and we’ll want to hear from them directly what their priorities are”.
