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Here's a look at the life of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
Birthdate: March 28, 1945
Place of birth: Maasin, Southern Leyte, Philippines
Birth name: Rodrigo Roa Duterte
Father: Vicente Duterte, lawyer and politician
Mother: Soledad (Roa) Duterte, teacher
Marriage: Elizabeth Zimmerman (annulled in 2000)
Children: with Elizabeth Zimmerman: Paolo, Sebastián and Sara; with Honeylet Avanceña: Verónica
Education: University of the Philippines Lyceum, BA, 1968; San Beda College, JD, 1972
Religion: Roman Catholic
Duterte served as mayor of Davao City for seven terms and 22 years, although not consecutively.
His father was governor of unified Davao and a member of President Ferdinand Marcos' cabinet.
Duterte's daughter, Sara Duterte, was mayor of Davao City.
He once compared himself to Adolf Hitler and said he would kill millions of drug addicts.
He cursed Pope Francis for the traffic problems caused by the pontiff's visit to the Philippines.
For decades, he has allegedly been linked to “death squads” in Davao City.
He has stated that he will urge Congress to reinstate the death penalty by hanging in the Philippines.
1977-1986 – Special prosecutor and then municipal prosecutor of Davao City.
1986-1988 – Vice Mayor of Davao City.
1988-1998 – Mayor of Davao City.
nineteen ninety five – After Flor Contemplacion, a Filipino domestic worker, is hanged in Singapore for murdering her co-worker in 1991, Duterte leads protesters in burning the Singapore flag.
1998-2001 – He becomes a congressman representing the first district of Davao City.
2001-2010 – Mayor of Davao City.
April 6, 2009 – Human Rights Watch publishes the results of its “Davao Death Squad” investigation, analyzing more than two dozen murders that occurred in 2007 and 2008. The results do not show any direct link to the murders and Duterte, but they do provide evidence of a relationship of complicity between government officials and members of the DDS.
May 24, 2015 – He promises to execute 100,000 criminals and dump their bodies in Manila Bay.
April 2016 – Duterte is under fire after making a controversial comment during a campaign rally about a 1989 prison riot that led to the rape and murder of a missionary. According to a CNN Philippines translation of the video, he says, “They raped her, they lined up next to her. She was angry because she was raped, yes, that was a thing. But she was so beautiful that I thought the mayor should have been first. What a waste.” Her party apologizes, but Duterte then disowns her.
May 30, 2016 – The Philippine Congress officially declares Duterte the winner of the May 9 presidential election once the official count is completed.
June 30, 2016 – He assumes the position of president.
August 5, 2016 – In a speech, he claims he told US Secretary of State John Kerry that US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg is a “gay son of a bitch.”
September 7, 2016 – Duterte and US President Barack Obama meet briefly in Laos while attending the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The two were scheduled to meet earlier for bilateral talks on the South China Sea, but Obama canceled their meeting as Duterte's fiery rhetoric escalated.
September 15, 2016 – One witness, Edgar Matobato, testifies before a Philippine Senate committee, claiming that he is a member of Duterte's alleged “Davao Death Squad,” and that the Philippine president gave orders to kill drug dealers, rapists and thieves. The committee was created to investigate alleged extrajudicial killings in the three months since Duterte took office.
October 4, 2016 – The Philippines and the United States begin joint military exercises in Manila in what Duterte says will be the last time under the historic decade-long Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement.
October 20, 2016 – Duterte announces at the PH-China Trade and Investment Forum: “In this place I announce my separation from the United States; militarily, [but] not socially, [and] economically.”
November 29, 2016 – Nine members of Duterte's security team are injured after their convoy was hit by an explosive device ahead of a planned visit by the president to Marawi City.
December 12, 2016 – He admits to killing suspected criminals during his tenure as mayor of Davao City.
November 9, 2017 – Before APEC meetings with regional leaders, Duterte tells a group of Filipino expatriates in the central Vietnam city of Da Nang that he stabbed someone to death when he was 16.
November 13, 2017 – US President Donald Trump and Duterte “briefly” discussed human rights and the Philippines' bloody drug war during their closed-door conversation, the White House announces. However, Duterte's spokesperson told reporters that “human rights did not come up” during the meeting.
February 8, 2018 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) says it is opening a preliminary examination of the situation in the Philippines regarding extrajudicial killings. The examination “will look at crimes allegedly committed… in the context of the 'war on drugs' campaign,” specifically since July 1, 2016. Duterte's spokesperson tells reporters that the president “welcomes to this preliminary examination because he is sick and tired of being accused. of the commission of crimes against humanity.”
December 5, 2018 – The ICC reports that it has a “reasonable basis to proceed with the preliminary examination” of the alleged extrajudicial executions of thousands of people since July 1, 2016.
March 17, 2019 – The Philippines officially leaves the ICC. The action, taken after a 12-month waiting period required by the ICC statute, follows an initial announcement made on March 14, 2018.
October 5, 2020 – Duterte reveals that he suffers from a chronic neuromuscular disease. In a speech in Moscow, he told a crowd of Filipinos living in the Russian capital that he had myasthenia gravis, which he describes as a “malfunction of the nerves,” CNN Philippines reports.
March 12, 2020 – Duterte places Metro Manila under community quarantine from March 15 to April 14 to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the metropolis.
March 23, 2020 – The Senate, in a 12-0 vote, approves a bill declaring the existence of a national emergency and giving Duterte additional powers to address the COVID-19 crisis. The additional powers will remain in place for at least three months or until the state of calamity is lifted across the country.
November 15, 2021 – Applications to run for senator in the 2022 elections. Duterte is not eligible to run for president again, and his daughter, Sara Duterte-Carpio, is running for vice president. He withdraws the offer from him on December 14.
June 30, 2022 – Duterte leaves the presidency.
