The tough-talking mayor of Davao City, the controversial Mayor Rodrigo Duterte who is considered as one of the strongest candidate in the upcoming 2016 national elections. Once elected as President, expect the return of death of penalty and public hanging of convicted criminals in three to six months in Malacanang.
During Mayor Duterte’s regular Sunday TV talk show, the mayor was quoted as saying “Drug addiction is easy money. Once you get it, it’s a done deal, you’re already into eternal addiction. I will not hesitate to use the military and the police and maybe, exercise the extraordinary power of the President to stop it,” he said in his regular Sunday TV talk show.
“I will recommend to Congress the restoration of death penalty by hanging in public,” Duterte said.
The 70-year-old Mayor Duterte said that he would propose to Congres the creation of special criminal courts to try drug cases and to repeal the Juvenil Justice and Welfare Act of 2006, the law that protects the righs of minors in conflict with the law, which was authored by senatorial candidate Francis Pangilinan.
Mayor Dutete also noted that if you don’t like his style because it sounds dictatorial, then vote for “(Sen. Grace) Poe, (Vice Pres. Jejomar) Binay, (Sen. Miriam-Defensor) Santiago and forget all about him as the standard-bearer of the PDP-Laban national party, the party that paved the way for the presidency of the late Pres. Corazon Aquino.