He was a student of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the former President.
He's been negotiating with the Muslim rebels in the South, and has agreed to give them a "semi-autonomous" area, which is so obviously idiotic it barely needs refutation. His plan fell through after the Moro Liberation Front killed 44 Special Ops soldiers trying to capture or kill one of their leaders. (The got him, but paid a high price.) This made average Filipinos quite mad, and the Congress scrapped the bill without even a vote.
It's a small country aligned with the USA, they should kill every Muslim terrorist in the country, nd expel every Muslim citizen who complains about it, by boat directly to Indonesia or Malaysia.
The Muz already have their islands.
This fellow is quite amusing. His nick-name is "the Punisher". From Wikipedia:
Rodrigo "Rody" Roa Duterte[2] (born March 28, 1945), nicknamed Digong, is a Filipino lawyer and politician of Visayan descent. Duterte is among the longest-serving mayors in the Philippines and has been mayor of Davao City, a highly urbanized city on Mindanao island, for 7 terms, totalling more than 22 years. He has also served as vice-mayor and congressman in the city. Known for his zero-tolerance policies against criminals, he earned the nickname "The Punisher".[3][4][5]
Essentially he created death squads to go after drug gangs. It has been effective, crime is way down.