The supporters of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte celebrated when he announced that he will pursue running for the Presidential Elections in 2016.
A lot of people somehow saw that he will be proclaimed as the new president because of the great skill that he showed towards Davao City.
But as a result of his candidacy, issues and controversies are being thrown at the strong candidate.
One of the issues was his video when the Pope came to the country for his Papal Visit. Duterte was really mad and irritated because of the heavy traffic, which was caused by the Papal Visit. In the video, he was also filmed cursing the Pope because of severe irritation.
(WARNING: This video contains profanity.) Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte, whose presidential bid under the PDP-Laban was formally announced Monday afternoon, verbalized just how irritated he is with the country's traffic situation, and cited an instance of hour-long traffic jam during the papal visit earlier this year that made him curse.FULL STORY: http://bit.ly/1MPOteI
Posted by ABS-CBNnews.com on Monday, November 30, 2015
This video gained mixed reactions from the netizens. Some claims that he should not be cursing the Pope since he was in the country for a good reason.
But there are a lot of people who defended him as well saying that his anger was not directed to the Pope, but it was for the government who could not provide a better accommodation at the expense of the public people.
Duterte said that he did not intend to offend the Pope. If in any case that the Vatican was offended, he will step down and withdraw his certificate of candidacy.
Source: Abs-cbn, ExtremeReaders