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The 2016 presidential campaign of Rodrigo Duterte was announced on November 21, 2015.Rodrigo Duterte, who was then serving as Mayor of Davao City, had refused to run and turned down other presidential and vice-presidential aspirants' offers to be his running mate, including that of Jejomar Binay, Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Bongbong Marcos.
On October 5, 2015, Senator Bongbong Marcos announced his candidacy for vice president in the 2016 election, and would support the candidacy of Rodrigo Duterte if he ever does run. [85] Days later, Duterte declined Cayetano's and Marcos' offers to be their presidential running mate.
The 2016 presidential campaign of Rodrigo Duterte, the incumbent mayor of Davao City, was announced on November 21, 2015. Duterte had repeatedly refused to run for several months and turned down other presidential and vice-presidential aspirants' offers to be his running mate, including Jejomar Binay, Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Bongbong Marcos.
Rodrigo Duterte of PDP–Laban and Leni Robredo of the Liberal Party won the presidential and vice presidential elections, respectively. The Liberals also won a plurality of seats in both houses of Congress , but several of the Liberal Party members of the House of Representatives jumped ship to Duterte's PDP–Laban, allowing his party to ...
Duterte won solid votes from Mindanao, Metro Manila, and Cebu during the 2016 presidential election. [15]Duterte, campaigning on a platform of fighting crime, corruption, and illegal drugs, [16] [17] [18] won the 2016 presidential election with 16,601,997 (39.02%) votes, defeating Liberal Party leader Mar Roxas by over 6.6 million votes.
January 9, 2016 Start of election gun ban [18] January 10, 2016 Start of Election period [19] February 5, 2015 Roy Señeres withdraws his presidential campaign citing health reasons. [20] February 9, 2016 Start of Campaign period for president, vice president, senators and party-lists [19] March 24–25, 2016 Campaign ban [19] March 26, 2016
Duterte soared to power on a promise to replicate on a national scale his anti-crime crackdown in the family’s stronghold of Davao, winning the 2016 presidential election in a landslide.
The presidential transition of Rodrigo Duterte started when then-Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidential election on May 9, 2016. Duterte topped the official count by the Congress of the Philippines on May 27, 2016, with 16,601,997 votes, 6.6 million more than his closest rival.