Known for his violent crackdown on drug dealers and other unorthodox policy decisions that won him both admiration and hatred, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced Saturday that he would be retiring from politics after dropping his bid for the presidency.
That Duterte is ending his political career so soon is ironic. Many western political analysts and high-handed scribes once condemned Duterte as a violent authoritarian who would shift the Philippines’ political system closer to that of Russia’s. However, that never happened. And now, Duterte, who is constitutionally forbidden from seeking another term as president, has decided not to run as […]
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