The reason is quite simple. Duterte is a poor man but had governed Davao well. Duterte just presented himself as he was. Despite being in government for many years. he did not enrich himself.
I love the posting with his picture in Facebook which said, Nagmumura pero hindi nagbubulsa . In an interview with Reuters he said peace and order was a priority.
“If you are a president and you are afraid of criminals, or you are afraid to kill criminals then you have no business being a president. Why? Because it is the number one problem, criminality, and if you cannot solve that issue, that is very paramount, do not go there. If you are one with a bleeding heart, if you cannot see blood splattered all around, and you are afraid of being assassinated by the drug lords here, one day you might be campaigning and they will just blast your souls out of this world, putting a bomb on the stage, it is not for the faint-hearted, if you are afraid to kill criminals or if you are afraid of being killed by criminals, you have no business there.
“I hold it as an article of faith that no progress or development can happen in any city, or in a community, or a province, if there is no peace. It has to be peaceful and orderly.”
Duterte‘s mission is to bring in the poor and other marginalized sectors into the mainstream. That is the crowdsourcing that won the numbers. Duterte is their man and they will protect him whatever it takes. The pictures of crowds say everything. They will not allow PCOS machines to defeat the people’s sovereignty. And what a crowd!
Source Philstar
