Hugpong---- a Party for Duterte and for what?

HUgpong, a regional party created by supporters of Davao city mayor Sara Duterte is fast consolidating itself not just as a regional powerhouse, but moreso, as a national political party. What ideology does it pursue, we simply don't know. What it is is another personality-based political aggrupation which dissipates as soon as the personality disappears.

Such tribal approach to political organisation seemed too ingrained in Filipino political culture that we just can't help but remember the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan or KBL of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The KBL was formed simply as a mass base support structure by Marcos in support of the dictatorship. In other countries, people form political parties around certain ideological beliefs. In the Philippines, it is the other way around--people form first then, ideologies later. What a shame!

What we can glean from Hugpong is this-- it is a regional party of Davao city mayor Sara, now a popular national personality according to surveys. Since Sara, according to news reports, is not interested in pursuing either a Congressional or Senatorial post, we can assume that this party is being prepared for 2022-- when she runs for the presidency to succeed his father.

Now what they intend to do with our country, we simply don't know exactly. What we can only do is make presumptions--- since the Dutertes are known for managing their territories using strong arm tactics which somewhat overstep the bounds of rationality and morality, expect such things also from Sara, albeit, according to several apologies, in a tempered manner, dissimilar with the father's.

I simply don't know if by 2022 or even as early as 2019, the people still want to continue this mismanagement of the economy, the rampant graft and corruption happening being led by Mr. Duterte's close friends, the breakdown of peace and order due to poverty and high price of goods. I simply don't presume that people are essentially happy of what is happening here. People are leaving these shores in droves while overseas Filipinos are thinking twice of sending their monies here.

If these people still win by 2019 in a clean way, then, that will be the day that I will think of really migrating and looking at this country from the lens of an outsider. This country seriously needs some uplifting and these liberalist things happening don't necessarily do us good.

Inday Sara (Duterte) is my girl

Inday Sara Duterte--my kinda girl

I smacked the sheriff, but I did'nt shoot the deputy. :-) (Bob Marley would have loved to lend his song as background music while we watch Inday Sara punch the befuddled sheriff of Davao)


It was raunchy, it was violent but hell knows no masters, except of course, Inday Sara Duterte.


Sara is not your ordinary mean buster. I mean, she's a lawyer. She knows the law, just like Atty. Theodore Te who commented that Inday Sara could be cited for contempt for assaulting Sheriff Abe Andres.


Andres, says Te, was just doing his duty. And his duty was specific---clear the area from illegal settlers.


But, that is NOT the issue. Inday Duterte recognizes that the sheriff was there to enforce the law. She was not questioning the demolition order. She was asking for leniency so that she can enforce order.


The issue is simple---the mayor of the city requested for two more hours. Inday Sara wants to coordinate with the illegal settlers to avoid a confrontation with the police, who were hired to enforce the law.


No, says Andres. Let's begin demolition. Mayhem ensued shortly right after. That really pissed my Inday. And what ensued after was really a classic.


That's the kind of leadership we all want---a leadership that understands the plight of the people and ready to protect the people at all times.


Duterte exemplifies a kind of leadership that is exactly the opposite of what we all see every single day in Malacanang.


Ask me why graft and corrupt practices remain and festering in Malacanang? Because there is no leader that holds the fort as strong as what the Dutertes do in Davao. If a Duterte occupies the palace right now, such nincoompoops like Alvarez, etal would have gotten what Andres got. 


Hate to say it, but the Duterte style of leadership is not just strongman style---there's compassion you see there. There is total appreciation of the soundness and the equality of rights under the law.


I smacked the sheriff, that's right, and I'm proud of it. :-) Inday Sara is my complete woman.