Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is Running for 2016 President. According to GMA News, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is running for president in 2016, his political adviser said Saturday.
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(Updated October 12- 4:47 p.m.) GMA News report, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on Monday announced that he will not seek the presidency next year, ending weeks of speculations about his political plans in 2016.
"Afterall, there was no ambition for me to aspire for the presidency," he said in a press briefing, as he apologized to those who "worked hard and long in support of me as I went around the country espousing the benefits and advantages of federalism."
"The country does not need me," he added. "I find no need for it."
He said a "major factor" in his decision not to run for president was his daughter, former Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, who he said is not in favor of him joining the 2016 presidential race.
"Yes," Lito Banayo, political adviser of Duterte, told GMA News Online when asked if the mayor will join the presidential race in 2016.
Currently, Duterte is at No. 2 on Netizens Poll of 2016, President, Vote Now, please click HERE!
Banayo said that there was still no definite date when the mayor will formally announce his presidential run.
(Updated October 12- 4:47 p.m.) GMA News report, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on Monday announced that he will not seek the presidency next year, ending weeks of speculations about his political plans in 2016.
"Afterall, there was no ambition for me to aspire for the presidency," he said in a press briefing, as he apologized to those who "worked hard and long in support of me as I went around the country espousing the benefits and advantages of federalism."
"The country does not need me," he added. "I find no need for it."
He said a "major factor" in his decision not to run for president was his daughter, former Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, who he said is not in favor of him joining the 2016 presidential race.
"Yes," Lito Banayo, political adviser of Duterte, told GMA News Online when asked if the mayor will join the presidential race in 2016.
Currently, Duterte is at No. 2 on Netizens Poll of 2016, President, Vote Now, please click HERE!
Banayo said that there was still no definite date when the mayor will formally announce his presidential run.
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The mayor said that under his administration, he wanted all rebels to come down and talk peace with his administration. Duterte’s statement was welcomed by the more than 3,000 people of Sta. Cruz who listened to him talk. Santa Cruz, one of the oldest towns in the Davao Region where only a few families own vast coconut plantations, is known as a hotbed of the NPAs.
Duterte said that the 46-year-old Communist insurgency has to end and he hopes to achieve that soon. He has declared in the past that should he become President of the Philippines, he would bring together the different armed groups to the peace table and find a common ground to end the conflict.
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