Duterte in trouble for catcalling TV scribe
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PHILIPPINE president-elect Rodrigo Duterte was yesterday accused of sexual harassment and disrespecting women after wolf whistling a female journalist on a nationally televised press conference.
Duterte, 71, interrupted a question from television reporter Mariz Umali on Tuesday night about his Cabinet appointees with a light-hearted comment about her trying to get his attention, then wolf whistling and breaking into a short serenade.
Umali continued trying to ask her question as Duterte smiled and some other reporters laughed.
In an interview with her GMA network yesterday, Umali described his remarks as “improper.”
While Umali said she would not ask for an apology and sought not to inflame the controversy, her journalist husband took to Facebook to criticize Duterte.
“Catcalling my wife is wrong in so many levels,” husband Raffy Tima wrote.
“Some jokes are funny and should be laughed at but disrespecting women is definitely not one of them.”
At the same press conference, Duterte created another controversy by saying there was justification for killing corrupt journalists, and that one “rotten son of a bitch” reporter deserved to have been murdered.
Duterte, an incendiary politician who won last month’s elections by a landslide on a pledge to end crime by killing tens of thousands of criminals, has previously been criticized for comments about women.
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