{"id":151827,"date":"2018-02-09T00:02:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T05:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=151827"},"modified":"2018-02-09T00:02:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T05:02:16","slug":"duterte-defends-dictatorial-style-of-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/09\/duterte-defends-dictatorial-style-of-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte defends \u2018dictatorial style\u2019 of governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only way for the Philippines to prosper is to have an \u201cautocratic style of governance,\u201d President Rodrigo Duterte said while admitting that he is a \u201cdictator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before former communist rebels in Malaca\u00f1ang, the President said, \u201cIf you say dictator, well, I am really a dictator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He adds that there is a need to be one because if he would not implement a tough governance, nothing will happen to the country.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Duterte slammed his critics labeling him as a puppet of the United States, saying such accusation is impossible because he does not even want to interact with Americans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 02\/ 09\/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only way for the Philippines to prosper is to have an \u201cautocratic style of governance,\u201d President Rodrigo Duterte said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}