{"id":37582,"date":"2021-10-03T01:54:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T16:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/02\/im-quitting-politics-says-rodrigo-duterte-for-a-second-time"},"modified":"2021-10-03T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T02:41:48","slug":"im-quitting-politics-says-rodrigo-duterte-for-a-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37582","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m quitting politics\u2019, says Rodrigo Duterte \u2013 for a second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears that controversial leader is lining up his daughter as his successor<\/p>\n<p>Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has announced that he will retire from politics and abandon his bid to become vice-president in next year\u2019s election, fuelling speculation that his daughter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/18\/will-she-run-for-president-dutertes-daughter-keeps-the-philippines-guessing\" title=\"\">Sara Duterte will instead run for office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte had previously accepted a nomination by his party to stand in the May election, a controversial plan that could have allowed him to retain power beyond the limits of his six-year term. However, recent polling suggests that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/elections\/most-filipinos-think-duterte-vice-presidential-bid-violates-constitution-sws-survey-june-2021\" title=\"\">many Filipinos disapproved<\/a> of the idea, which critics warned would undermine the constitution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/02\/im-quitting-politics-says-rodrigo-duterte-for-a-second-time\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears that controversial leader is lining up his daughter as his successorPhilippine president Rodrigo Duterte has announced that he will retire from politics and abandon his bid to become vice-president in next year\u2019s election, fuelling speculation th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1057,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-drugs-trade","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37593,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37582\/revisions\/37593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}