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Contrary to what people may think, President Duterte does delegates a lot of his power to his cabinet members. The reason why he seems to be too involved is that the media (both social media and mainstream media) is basically everywhere nowadays. It creates an illusion of him being too involved in everything.
In many ways, President Duterte holds quite a significant power versus other world leaders. This means that his workload is definitely quite a bit higher than that of other world leaders. With the Philippines basically playing catch-up in global and domestic affairs, its political leaders would thus have to work double the effort of their predecessors in order to close the gap. This entails a lot of legwork. Unfortunately, this kind of superhuman effort does take its toll on anyone’s health—most especially for a septuagenarian like President Duterte.
As for his off-the-cuff remarks with regards to his critics, I think that he definitely needs to work on his self-control. This is especially relevant nowadays since his words basically hold currency in global affairs. Whatever he says or do have tangible and non-tangible effects on the Philippine image, investor confidence, and various other markers. Does this affect the effectiveness in how he uses his power? Perhaps, but investors are not too hung up on the leader’s words. Leaders come and go. It is their legacy, what they did in terms of infrastructure investments, education, social cohesion, peace and order, etc., that makes more impact than words alone.
