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Duterte still leads in SWS poll after rape remarks

In favoring diplomacy, however, Sen.

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The tough-talking Mindanao mayor whose platform of government includes “total war” on crime and corruption, widened his lead as the preferred choice of Filipino voters to be their next president, based on the latest findings of a private pollster released on Sunday. What came to my mind was, they raped her, lined up for her.

It also asked that the post be removed. “That’s why, they should bully us”. “But we also have to fight for our territory”, she added.

On top of diplomacy, Miriam Defensor-Santiago said, legal means would also help not only in asserting the Philippines’ fishing rights in the contested waters but also in possibly ending the sea row itself.

Duterte had told laughing followers that the woman was so handsome he wished he had been the first in line to rape her before she was murdered in a jail riot in his city in 1989. “If they don’t want to talk, then I will ask the Navy to bring me to the nearest boundary at Scarborough, I will ride the jetski and plant the Philippine flag there in their port (did I hear it right?)”, he said.

“E napakadaling sabihin na igyera natin ang Tsina”.

“Pero habang naguusap-usap pa e pipilitin ko na kayo… ay mabigyan ng puhunan para ho kayo ay magkaroon livelihood [But while negotiations are ongoing, I will push that… you will be provided capital so that you can have livelihood]”, he said.

In the posting, a photo of PM Lee was presented with the caption “Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is the only presidential candidate that could make Philippines like Singapore”, according to a report in ABS-CBN News. “We wish the Philippines well in the conduct of its elections”, the embassy said in a statement on its website. He initially refused to say sorry but later apologized, insisting he was not joking but was simply expressing anger using “gutter language”. “I would stake that claim”. “Matagal ko na ambisyon maging hero din ako, ‘pag piñata ako doon, bahala na kayo umiyak dito”, Duterte added. “If they resist, kill them all”. The rating of former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas of the ruling Liberal Party increased to 19% from 18%, while the score of Vice President Jejomar Binay of the United Nationalist Alliance dropped to 14% from 20%.

Rodrigo Duterte sparked revulsion among women’s groups, diplomats and the Catholic church when he told an audience that as the local mayor, he should have been at the front of the queue when an Australian missionary was attacked in a 1989 jail riot.

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