President Duterte’s Firsts
- First president to be proclaimed in absentia
- First president from Mindanao
- Oldest chief executive of the Philippines at 71 years old
- First president to have a plunder complaint against him before assuming the presidency (filed may 5, 2016 by Trillanes)
- First president from San Beda College where he finished law in 1972
- First in 30 years to have a lawyer president (9th) since Ferdinand Marcos
- The first to have jumped straight from being a city mayor to president
- First wife is Elizabeth Zimmerman
- First self-proclaimed socialist to become president. (Kabataang Makabayan (KM) founded by Jose Ma. Sison)
- Presidential candidate with the fastest growing Facebook page. After posting, it has over 3 million likes
- One of the first politicians who appointed deputy mayors to represent the Muslim and Lumad people in the city government.
- Declined several awards: World Mayor for outstanding leaders, American Cancer Society Award and 2010 anti-smoking award in Singapore
- He was the first local government official to visit Tacloban City after Typhoon Yolanda
- Central 911 (the first and only 9-1-1 emergency telephone number in Asia which is also free of charge)
- Duterte is also known for banning swimsuit competitions in beauty pageants in Davao City
- First President to dress up casually at his first press conference (my opinion)
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