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May 2016
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Who is Rodrigo Duterte?

Financial Times
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The Philippines has elected a political outsider as president, a man with no experience of national level politics and who has said little about his plans for the economy. John Murray Brown asks the FT's Avantika Chilkoti, who covered the election campaign in Manila, what we know about the president elect.

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