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Questions over Duterte’s Philippine Cabinet

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Philip Bowring
May 21, 2016
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By electing Rodrigo Duterte, the rough-hewn outsider from Mindanao as president, the people of the Philippines have voted for change, perhaps radical change. But whether they will get much beyond a lot of rhetoric and possibly some dubious action against drug dealers and criminal gangs, is far from certain.

Let's not start with the vote for the presidenc…

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