Duterte: "You did not want me to be President" Says to Media "Manigas na kayo. Para sa tao ako"
On his speech during the Partido Demotratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) campaign rally, President Rodrigo Duterte that the media didn’t want him to be the President of the Philippines because he is not from the elite family. The speech has been delivered last Wednesday on Marikina City as one of the speaker of the PDP-Laban campaign rally. President Duterte claimed that he won the presidency in 2016 with a large margin despite of all alleged media propaganda against him. “In the first place, you did not want me to be President because I do not belong to any of the ruling elite in this country. P___ ina ninyo,” he said. “I am not your President. Manigas na kayo. Para sa tao ako.” he added. President Duterte said to the media during his speech, “can weave a lot of stories out of a single line,” as he made an apparent reference to his controversial statement last December that he “touched" his maid when he was a teenager. “So ‘yan ang technique diyan. ‘Ah si Duterte nags...