SISTER:

‘He gets angry when he sees a woman fight him’

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has a problem with women, says the woman who has known him longer than perhaps any other: his sister Jocellyn.

“He’s a chauvinist,” she said in a recent interview. “When he sees a woman who fights him, it really gets his ire.”

Jocellyn then ran through a list of Duterte’s female critics that included his vice-president, a prominent senator who is in jail and the head of the Supreme Court.

All three have sparred with Duterte after denouncing his brutal war on drugs, which has killed thousands of people since he took office in June last year.

Duterte has joked about rape, insulted the Pope and baffled friends and foes with often contradictory public statements.

Neither this, nor his profanityladen reactions to women critics,