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Appointed as OIC Vice Mayor of Davao City
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Started his term as Mayor of Davao City
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Approved Ordinance No. 5004, otherwise known as the Women Development Code of Davao City
Women Development Code of Davao City: https://www.ombudsman.gov.ph/UNDP4/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/GenderDevCodes_Final.pdf -
Started his term as a congressman of Davao City's first district
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Started his term as Mayor of Davao City
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Implemented Davao City's Firecracker Ban
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Banned swimsuit competitions in beauty pageants in Davao City
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Supported the first-ever Gawad Kalinga Village inside a jail facility which is only located in Davao City
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The UN General Assembly of the Human Rights Council reported that "The Mayor of Davao City has done nothing to prevent these killings [over 1,400 alleged criminals and street children], and his public comments suggest that he is, in fact, supportive."
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Started his term as Vice Mayor of Davao City
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Started his term as Mayor of Davao City
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Held a summit entitled "Mindanaons Forging Unity Toward a Federal System of Government"
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Confirmed links to extrajudicial killings in Davao City
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An incident was reported where Duterte personally went into the bar and forced the tourist who refused to comply with the public anti-smoking ordinance of Davao City to swallow his cigarette butt
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Won the 2016 Philippine presidential elections
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Began his presidential transition
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Insisted on executing criminals by hanging
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Started his term as President of the Philippines
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Launched a nationwide anti-drug campaign and urged Filipinos to join the fight against illegal drugs
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The administration demanded critics of Duterte's anti-drug campaign to provide evidence to their complaints
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Signed Executive Order No. 2 also known as the Freedom of Information Order
Freedom of Information Order: https://cnnphilippines.com/news/2016/07/24/duterte-signs-inks-freedom-of-information-foi.html -
Launched a 24-hour complaint office accessible to the public through a nationwide complaint hotline, 8888, while also changing the country's emergency telephone number from 1-1-7 to 9-1-1.
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Gave the go signal to bury former president Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
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Stated that he would not want to antagonize China and preferred to maintain good relations with the country during regarding the territorial disputes in the West Philippine Sea
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Protesters called on Duterte to end his alliance with Marcoses
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Warned the Maute local terrorist group not to force him to declare war
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The Maute local terrorist group left a note threatening to behead Duterte
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Instructed the Philippine Navy the Philippine Navy to build structures on Benham Rise to reassure the Philippines' sovereignty following the the sighting of Chinese survey vessels
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Ordered the Armed Forces of the Philippines to occupy and fortify at least nine uninhabited islands in the South China Sea
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Duterte also announced that he would visit Pag-asa Island, a Philippine-administered island in the Spratlys Island, during Independence Day and raise a Philippine flag there. He shared his plan to rename the Benham Rise to the Philippine Ridge.
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Canceled his plans to raise the Philippine flag on Pag-asa Island because of the Philippines' friendship with China
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Implemented the Build! Build! Build! infrastructure plan.
Update: As of July 2021, 214 airport projects, 451 seaport projects, 29,264 kilometers of roads, 5,950 bridges, 11,340 flood control projects, and 150,149 classrooms had been completed under the infrastructure program. Source: https://pcoo.gov.ph/dutertenomics-unveiled/ , https://mb.com.ph/2021/07/21/what-has-build-build-build-achieved-so-far/ -
Allocated ₱1.6 billion to develop the Pag-asa Island, despite despite rejection from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The island will be turned into a tourist destination and marine research facility. Among the facilities planned for Pag-asa Island are beaching facilities, a radio station, an ice plant, and a power plant. A portion of the fund was also allocated to improving the Rancudo airstrip runway and the living conditions of the deployed soldiers. Source: https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/01/17/ph-plans-to-repair-pag-asa-island-illegal-says-chinese-envoy -
Signed an executive order formally renaming the Benham Rise to "Philippine Rise"
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Declared a 60-day martial law in Mindanao following clashes between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Maute local terrorist group
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Threatened to bomb Lumad schools because of suspicions that the Lumads spread subversive ideas and house communist rebels.
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Designated the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to be in charge of the anti-drug campaign, and barred the Philippine National Police and other “ad hoc anti-drug task force” from from joining anti-drug raids.
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Allowed the Philippine National Police to join anti-drug raids again
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Signed into law the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law (TRAIN Law)
TRAIN Law lowers personal income taxes while raising duties on fuel, cars, coal, and sugar-sweetened drinks. Revenues collected from the TRAIN law will help fund Duterte’s Build! Build! Build infrastructure plan. Source: https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/12/19/17/duterte-signs-tax-reform-2018-budget-into-law -
There were protests at various public market sites, calling for the Duterte administration to abolish the TRAIN law.
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The Philippine Daily Inquirer published aerial surveillance photographs of “island fortresses” built by China in the South China Sea. Duterte received accusation that his administration betrayed their duty to defend the Philippines’ territory.
The photos contain mainly Chinese military fortifications which has runways, hangars, control towers, helipads, radomes and multi-storey buildings on reefs across the region. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/06/photos-beijings-militarisation-south-china-sea-philippines -
Ordered the closure of all operations within the island of Boracay for 6 months due to environmental concerns.
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Admitted he has no master plan for the rehabilitation of Boracay
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Deployed more than 600 military personnel in Boracay, confusing residents on the government's initial environmental wordings
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There were gatherings at numerous gas station sites to protest the continuous increase of oil prices, which are linked to the TRAIN law
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Signed the Bangsamoro Organic Law, which abolished the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and provided for the basic structure of government for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region.
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Approved the suspension of the next round of fuel excise tax under the TRAIN law in response to high inflation.