The 2022 national elections is just around the
corner and the electorate will choose the successor of the current 16th
President of the country- President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
Much can be said about his administration, it has
its own unique take on the kind of leadership Duterte led the country.
An eloquent and straightforward article about the
16th president of the Philippines which he describes the different
trailblazing leadership traits he introduced for the improvement of the country.
We have quoted in full the article titled “Amazing man”
by veteran journalist and former Ambassador Rigoberto Tiglao, for public
information and convenience.
Amazing Man
NOW in the twilight of his political power,
President Rodrigo Duterte continues to amaze me.
PublicusAsia a week ago reported that
statistically, he shares the No. 1 slot in voters’ candidate preference for
senator — Escudero got 56.7 percent, Duterte, 55.6 percent. His ratings
would most definitely increase when the Marcos-Sara machine throws its support
behind him.
If he had run, he would likely make history as the
senator voted by the most number of people — 90 percent of votes would not be
impossible. Duterte would have won as senator even if he does nothing and
spends nothing for the electoral campaign.
Yet a few days later, like an ordinary politician,
he goes to the Comelec office with just his executive secretary by his side —
his de facto personal counsel — and withdraws his senatorial candidacy. No
speech, no melodrama.
I find that amazing. Political power — and in is
this case the most powerful political power any Filipino could hold — feeds the
ego like no other. And even its lesser forms — being senator for example —
attracts as much as that legendary The One Ring in Tolkien’s novel.
One losing presidential candidate dived like a man
possessed into expanding his business empire to escape the pain of power
slipping by when it had seemed already in his hands. Another, at least for a
few weeks, went around town talking to his people trying to convince that a
coup against the winner could be successfully undertaken. I admire Mar Roxas
for being a good loser, deciding it seems to lead a life of tranquility with
his twins. Another, who ran three decades ago and had clearly been cheated,
would show signs of clinical insanity.
It’s not easy when one day people line up to meet
you, and in the next, nobody takes your call.
Yet Duterte gives up power, even the lesser form of
being a senator, as if he just gave up a worn-out shirt.
This of course is a lesson not just in politics but
in life. I’ve been a student of mysticism, the real religion really. From
Vedanta to Zen, from Sri Ramana to Krishnamurti to even the extremely
controversial Osho to Eckhart Tolle, spiritual liberation consists of dropping the
ego.
* * *
I wrote the following piece four years ago, in July
2017. It’s been a great feeling for me that its main point, why Duterte has
been popular, was confirmed in a recent survey by PublicusAsia. Four years has
also proven I was accurate in my assessment of Duterte. The only things I
failed to mention are, first, that he has all but decimated the Communist Party
in the past few years, and second, that he expertly dealt successfully with the
pandemic, which his arch critics, the US and Europe, have failed to
do.
July 2017 column
I would bet that if there is a survey on what
quality Filipinos most admire of Duterte, what would overwhelmingly emerge
isn’t “incorruptibility”, “wisdom in governance,” or even “sympathy for the
masses.” It would be “matapang”: brave. His sigil, the fighting fist, is so
appropriate to Duterte’s image among the masses.
While the hoity-toity elites and the Yellow Cult as
well were aghast at his curses at the Catholic Church, the oligarchs, the
illegal drug gangs, and the US, the masses interpreted this more as challenging
these entities to a fight — as curses usually are when uttered in the streets.
Indeed, there never has been a president to lock
horns with the Catholic Church, one of the pillars of oligarchic rule in the country,
even exposing to the masses what only the elites have known: its nearly
systemic sexual depredations against the youth under its care, its wealth.
There has never been a president to challenge the
mighty “we-set-the-nation’s-agenda” oligarchic-tools, the Philippine Daily
Inquirer and the ABS-CBN television network for their elite bias and for
their having been the propaganda vehicle for the Yellow Cult since 1986.
Oligarchs
There has never been a president to expose the
power of oligarchs that has been very bad for the country.
There has never been a president to go against the
US, exposing its continuing hold on our foreign policy since our independence,
and to even, in defiance, move the country closer to its rival superpower,
China.
And of course, there has never been a president to
wage an all-our war on the illegal drug industry, which his predecessors had
ignored that our country was on the brink of being transformed into a
narco-state. Duterte had such a tenacity in this war that he defied the Western
media and NGOs’ screams of human rights violations. The West was shocked over
such Duterte threats as feeding the fish in Manila Bay with the corpses of drug
lords. Filipinos saw it as the bravest of words coming from a president.
Any other president would have buckled under the
campaign of the New York Times and brown Americans in the US to paint the
country as one where the blood of innocents run through the streets every
night.
The Marawi crisis, because it has lasted for more
than a month now and has created so much destruction, would have drawn so much
criticism under any other president, that he would have lost his political
base. In Duterte’s case, his PulseAsia approval ratings even rose from 78
percent in March to 82 percent, while in the SWS satisfaction ratings, it rose
from 75 percent to 78 percent.
Why? A major reason: Two weeks after the terrorists
occupied Marawi, Duterte announced that he planned to go there to be “one with
his troops.” Although he would get to Marawi only a month later — purportedly
because the military found it too risky for the commander in chief it would
have required redeploying troops away from the front lines — it did send the
message: This is a president unafraid to be with his troops in battle.
Duterte’s announcement reminded Filipinos that his predecessor, Aquino 3rd was gallivanting
in Cotabato City pretending nothing was happening, while 44 of our
elite SAF troops were being massacred one by one in Mamasapano, Maguindanao,
just a 30-minute helicopter ride away.
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