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5. HE LEARNED DISCIPLINE, COMPASSION FROM HIS PARENTS

President Duterte has his parents to thank for his honesty, discipline, and compassion for others. His mother Soledad, a public school teacher, was said to be the disciplinarian in the family while his father, Vicente, taught him the value of public service. “‘Yan ang nakuha ko sa nanay ko kasi ang nanay ko, ‘pag hindi ka magsabi ng totoo, hindi maghinto ng palo,” Duterte said about learning honesty and discipline. Duterte, on the other hand, learned the ropes of public service from his father, a governor of Davao in the 1950s, and mastered a “few style” in politics. “‘Remember, huwag kang pumasok sa pulitika na isipin mo itong buhay mo. Siguraduhin mo lang na ang tao mahal mo talaga,’” he said recalling his father’s advice. “Now, kung meron diyan, even if there’s pus, may nana sa buong katawan mo, kailangan mo ng pagmamahal sa kapwa mo tao. Kung hindi mo kaya ‘yan, huwag kang mag-politiko. So that’s compassion. Lahat tayo, lalo na tayo, kasi eyeball to eyeball ka everyday,” he said.

6. HE’S A PROUD PROMDI RUNNING PH LIKE DAVAO CITY

Duterte, former mayor of Davao City, was regarded as an outsider or “provinciano” in imperial Manila in the 2016 presidential polls. He, however, scored an epic victory, riding on an antiestablishment wave to the presidency with promises to curb illegal drugs, crime, and corruption. “I came in from the cold, eh taga-Davao, probinsyano naman kami,” he said. Duterte said he runs the country like an “expanded Davao City,” crediting his local stint as mayor that prepared him for national governance. “Sa akin madali because I’ll just think of the Philippines as an expanded Davao City and because of the similarl situations all over, you just think that it’s a bigger dimension of the problem,” he said.