{"id":83662,"date":"2016-12-12T05:49:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T10:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=83662"},"modified":"2016-12-12T05:49:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T10:49:48","slug":"duterte-wont-sit-miss-universe-2017-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/12\/12\/duterte-wont-sit-miss-universe-2017-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte won\u2019t sit as Miss Universe 2017 judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_83663\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83663\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pia-wurtzbach-and-rodrigo-duterte.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83663\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pia-wurtzbach-and-rodrigo-duterte.jpg\" alt=\"Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Miss Universe 2016 Pia Wurtzbach at the Malaca\u00f1ang Palace (Photo from Pia Wurtzbach's Instagram account) \" width=\"536\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pia-wurtzbach-and-rodrigo-duterte.jpg 536w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pia-wurtzbach-and-rodrigo-duterte-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Miss Universe 2016 Pia Wurtzbach at the Malaca\u00f1ang Palace (Photo from Pia Wurtzbach&#8217;s Instagram account)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Paula Mary Shugart, Miss Universe Organization (MUO) President said Monday, December 12, that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte won\u2019t judge the Miss Universe 2017 pageant.<\/p>\n<p>Shugart said in a press conference in Makati with 12 Miss Universe candidates that judging the pageant with government officials is prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very hard to be a government official and to be a judge. We established the policy a long time ago. They have to be neutral,\u201d Shugart said.<\/p>\n<p>Organization President also added that it is going to be hard for an official from the host country to judge the pageant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a lot of pressure if you\u2019re the host country. So that\u2019s the policy\u2026 unfortunately, but I\u2019m sure everybody will be there,\u201d Shugart said in Manila Bulletin report.<\/p>\n<p>She also said that they will soon announce the board of judges.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, The Department of Tourism (DOT) Undersecretary Katherine De Castro had a press briefing about the incoming Miss Universe pageant that Duterte is welcome Duterte\u2019s participation being the judge in the pageant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Miss Universe Organization is very much welcome to have him in the show. Apparently, it is a rule for the Miss Universe Organization not to have a judge from the host country but I think if it\u2019s the President, I think they will make an exception to the rule,\u201d De Castro was quoted as saying in an Inquirer.net report.<\/p>\n<p>The Miss Universe will be crowned on January 30, 2017 at Mall of Asia Arena Pasay City.<\/p>\n<p>President Duterte is still expected by the Tourism officials to watch the pageant even he\u2019s not going to judge the pageant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Paula Mary Shugart, Miss Universe Organization (MUO) President said Monday, December 12, that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":83663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9095,3],"tags":[3487,12799,12798,12797,12796,12795,2444],"class_list":["post-83662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-human-interest-lifestyle","category-lifestyle","tag-department-of-tourism","tag-katherine-de-castro","tag-miss-universe-2017","tag-miss-universe-organization","tag-paula-mary-shugart","tag-pia-wurtzbach","tag-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-cheng-ilagan","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83662","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=83662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}