MANILA – Majority of Filipinos described as “vulgar” President Rodrigo Duterte kissing a married Filipina in South Korea, cursing United Nations officials and criticizing priests, a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed.
Fifty-two percent of the 1,200 respondents in the June 27 to 30 poll said Duterte’s act of kissing a married lady on the lips in Seoul was vulgar.
Forty percent said it was not vulgar while 7 percent was undecided.
On his pronouncement that “priests are no better than him – that some priests have two wives,” 55 percent said it was vulgar, 39 percent said it was not vulgar, and 6 percent did not know, according to SWS.
Duterte’s cursing the chief and members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and threatening to throw them to the crocodiles also did not sit well with 64 percent of the respondents.
Thirty-one percent found his behavior not vulgar while 5 percent was undecided, the survey also showed.
Moreover, all three acts of Duterte were found vulgar in all geographic areas across the Philippines except in Mindanao./PN
