Sara Duterte ascending presidential image

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BY JUN VELASCO
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Saturday, March 3, 2018
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POLITICIANS are dime a-dozen, and at times, pollutants of the Leadership Environment.  They are the killjoys of our idea or ideal of a great society.

But we have learned to bite the bullet, bear the antithesis of our democratic system where anyone including the crackpot can aim for the presidency of the Republic.

We began this article with an antithesis to lay the basis for a different breed of leaders that at once contradicts the run-of-the-mill kind, not unlike the unusual rise of our incumbent President Digong, who hit the national scene like a meteor, like a bolt from the blue!

You must now have an idea of the persona we are referring to – Sara Duterte Carpio, the feisty mayor of Davao City who, for all intents and purposes, gets our vote as the most logical successor to her super popular (notorious to the ultra-conservative) father, President Digong.

We sounded out a few friends on what they think about Mayor Duterte, being a subject of our column as next president.

Cong. Ace Barbers, our Surigao-based kin, said “Ok tayo jan, being a Mindanaoan.”

A highly esteemed lady classmate, the former Prosy Badiola from Laguna, felt another Duterte would smack of a dynasty.

Our intellectual confidant Tony Hombrebueno whose power of discernment is unassailable says, “I am for it to carry on the reforms started by President Duterte.”

Our faithful friend, Panay News publisher Danny Fajardo, says, “Let’s go for it. Which found instant concurrence from Davao-based publisher Ben Diansay calling it, “Brilliant!”

Our partner-for-life Dr. Cathy Velasco found Mayor Sara Duterte “an intelligent speaker” at the Nutritionist-Dietitians Association confab in Davao last week.

What, to us, makes her fit, if not the fittest, to be her erpat’s successor?

For one, she is a lady-lawyer who would have the refining qualities of leadership that would improve upon the rough edges left by the outgoing leadership which is revolutionary in character.

A vital requisite for political ascendancy in our fractious society is charisma. Well, our lady mayor definitely oozes with it.

How many of you stood up to clap when she delivered a wallop on the face of a sheriff who did not implement her order?

Actually, the sheriff was just implementing a court order, but was asked by the mayor to delay the serving (of the order) by one day in order to cushion its impact on the recipient. Her feminine side at work. But we all saw her displaying grit and balls when she put Speaker Bebot Alvarez in his proper place.

The emergence of a leader, it is said, is dictated by the stars in the firmament. He or she appears on the scene like an unusual force.

Such unusual force would be in the form of issues, events and circumstances that conspire to catapult a leader up front.

Who would have thought that a probinsyano would steal the daylights reserved for personalities with stellar names such as a Roxas, Poe, and a masa-bred vice president Binay?

What were the issues that rallied the nation into one? Why presidential candidate Digong?

The 85 percent majority who are poor are deep inside angry at the establishment. Digong’s unsavory mouth was the sweetest thing to the hol poloi’s ears.

The masa are re-examining the purpose of the church; hence, Digong’s playful dig at the Pope drew cheers from the masa, not sympathy.

Now you know why most Pinoys clap to Digong’s  rough language, being their authentic spokesman.

All that will be polished by a woman leader in cadence with Sara’s image, as “the woman with balls.”

Need we say more? (juanitomvelasco@yahoo.com/PN)
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