UNPREPARED TO LEAD

Do you know why Duterte is failing as a president? It is because he lacks national leadership experience, he immediately pole-vaulted from the city mayorship to the presidency. City Mayorship is micro-politics while the presidency is macro-politics. How can Duterte be effective in diplomacy when there is no diplomacy in being a City Mayor? How can he be good in the economy when the biggest economic policy of a City Mayor is just even a pigment of that LONG TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN of a City?

The election of Duterte to the presidency was actually recklessness on the part of the people who voted for him to the presidency when he lacked the proper experience in order for him to be a good president.

The story would have been different had Duterte prepared for the presidency like running, winning, and serving as a congressman, senator, or vice president, because these positions are actually good training grounds for the presidency since these positions are actually national elective offices. It is true that the position of a congressman is being elected locally but its functions are that of a national elective position since the same may make, alter or repeal laws of national importance.

That is the problem of Duterte he ran for the presidency without preparing for it, hence he is now managing the country as an unprepared national leader. Yes, he won the presidential contest but the question is did he effectively served the state? The answer is a NO because he did not prepare for it.

Duterte prepared to be City Mayor and never prepared to be president, therefore he is now running the country like a city being ruled by a City Mayor. His style of berating his critics is a typical style of a local politician, his penchant for rumor-mongering is actually a common local political strategy ... and that's what the people got for electing a local official directly to the presidency.