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Duterte Enters Lame Duckhood

Unless of course he figures out a new way to stay in power

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Philip Bowring
Aug 28, 2020
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Rodrigo Duterte’s term as president still has 20 months to run but fin de regime signs are beginning to appear. Most startling was a proposal by a group of Duterte supporters meeting at Clark Free Zone, the former US Navy enclave north of Manila, calling for a ‘revolutionary government” which would institute changes in the 1987 Constitution. Exactly wha…

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