Tag: Duterte’s presidency

Manila Bakery to give away free cakes for 6 years of Duterte’s presidency

MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — A bakery in Manila will be giving away free cakes for the six years of Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency to celebrate his inauguration. Rodrigo Duterte’s win in the presidential election is costing Quim’s bakery in Manila a lot of money. The baker’s offer of free cakes for the next six years of his term in office if he won went viral. Now Duterte’s supporters are turning up in droves to claim […]

EU guarantees cooperation with Duterte

QUEZON City, Philippines – The European Union guaranteed that it will cooperate with the new President, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. According to EU Ambassador Franz Jessen, the EU is just waiting for the formal start of Duterte’s presidency before presenting its plans to him, including the peace talks in Mindanao. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)

Kill the criminals! Duterte’s vote-winning vow in Philippines

by Karl MALAKUNAS MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Rodrigo Duterte curses the pope’s mother and jokes about his own infidelities, but many voters in the Philippines want to elect him president so he can honour a campaign pledge to kill thousands of criminals. Duterte is making a spectacular, obscenity-filled charge towards the presidential palace by selling himself as a ruthless leader willing to bypass the judicial system in an unprecedented war against crime. “Kill them all,” […]