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| President Rodrigo Duterte / photo file from Philstar |
President Rodrigo Duterte seems to have so much respect for
his late father as he shared one of the biggest lessons he learned from him.
During a speech in Bohol, Duterte said he learned to embrace
public service from the former Davao governor.
“I remembered my father. Jun (Evasco). When we were young,
while we were having lunch or dinner, I would brag and say, ‘Ah ako, when I
grow up I want to be a mayor’. Our father would chastise us and say, ‘Do not
try to look beyond. What you should do is to get a good education’” the
President
said
“He said, ‘If you are going to enter politics, make sure
that you really love serving the public. It would be very difficult if you
enter that just to brag about how good you are. The people will be able to
sense that… What you need is to truly love public service,” he added.
Loving public service genuinely was the reason why he has
never lost an election in his life; “Maybe that’s
how much the people love me. It’s not a pretended feeling. The people can sense
it,”
“If you make the effort to
shake their hands and… The people can sense it especially if you just sit there
doing nothing but wait for the next election. People are not stupid. Even the
poor can understand,” President Duterte added
Source: Politiko
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