DUTERTE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ELECTED IN THE FIRST PLACE

By Bayawanon

Duterte should not have been elected president in the first place since he was just a small-time City Mayor, he is bereft of national experience to lead the country. A local chief executive like a city mayor, cannot be a good national chief executive if he is directly elected from being a local chief executive to the helm of national leadership which is the presidency since local chief executives like municipal mayors, city mayors and/or provincial governors lack the ingredients of the presidency like foreign policies and macroeconomic policies. These are the reasons why Duterte is very poor in international diplomacy and in the economy, aside from these, Duterte has also proven that he is a failure with regard to calamity and risk reduction management, as can be gleaned from his COVID 19 solutions which are only limited to a national lockdown, curfew, enhanced community quarantine, emergency powers and international loans which can be used to finance the people being hostage by the lockdown due to COVID 19 in their homes.

Duterte is ANTI-LIFE as can be seen in his domestic policies in his DRUG WAR, MARAWI SIEGE MANAGEMENT, and in the present COVID 19 pandemic. As can be presumed in his actions, he does not attack the problem exhaustively, he makes hasty decisions and still thinks like a city mayor running a country.
His supporters cannot notice this because they are inundated and drowned by fake news, a weapon Duterte is using for him to look good when in truth and in fact he is the other way around.

His economic policy which is to raise the taxes can only be felt the negative way since inflation followed. Why is it that the Philippines cannot pole vault economically when the presidency has forced everyone to pay higher taxes? The Philippine economy cannot soar high because of the president's program of FREE GOVERNMENT SERVICES which are good for the people but bad for the economy.

To me, Duterte has actually underestimated the presidency and has even treated it much lower than the city mayorship of Davao, a position which he held for twenty-two (22) years. His penchant of airing his tirades against his political rivals in the media which can be seen and be read by the international community makes him much lower than a Barangay Captain. His howls against the catholic faith and even against GOD were uncalled for since it makes him nothing but uncivil and unsober.

In my forty-six years of existence in the Philippines, a country I consider as the best reason why GOD created the universe, I cannot imagine any worst epidemic, catastrophe or disaster to happen in the country many considered as the PEARL OF THE ORIENT SEAS aside from the former small-time city mayor coming from the Southern Philippines, they would call Duterte.