Duterte votes in Davao City

Philippine presidential candidate and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte casts his vote at a voting precint at Daniel Aguinal National High School in Davao City, on the southern island of Mindanao on May 9, 2016.  Voting was underway in the Philippines on May 9 to elect a new president, with anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte the shock favourite after an incendiary campaign in which he vowed to butcher criminals. / AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS
Philippine presidential candidate and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte casts his vote at a voting precint at Daniel Aguinal National High School in Davao City, on the southern island of Mindanao on May 9, 2016. Voting was underway in the Philippines on May 9 to elect a new president, with anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte the shock favourite after an incendiary campaign in which he vowed to butcher criminals. / AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS

 

 

(Eagle News) – Presidential candidate and survey front runner Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte voted past 2 p.m. on Monday, May 9, becoming the last of the “presidentiables” to cast his vote on election day.

Duterte, wore a checkered red polo, when he went to his polling precinct at the Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School to vote.  He was accompanied by his common-law-wife, Cielito “Honeylet” Avanceña.

The Davao City mayor has been dubbed as “the man to beat” in the race for the presidency in the May 9 elections.

Duterte, the longtime mayor of the southern city of Davao, has attracted millions with his vows of brutal but quick solutions to the nation’s twin plagues of crime and poverty, which many believe have worsened despite strong economic growth in recent years.