President Rodrigo Duterte Inauguration Speech

“I am here because I love my country and I love the people of the Philippines. I am here, why? Because I am ready to start my work for the nation.” – 16th President of the Philippines, former Mayor of Davao City, Rodrigo Roa Duterte took his oath on June 30 of year 2016 at Malacañang’s Rizal Hall before the guests and on national TV.
Duterte’s inaugural speech ran only for about 15 minutes and comprises of only 1,335 words. It was considered as one of the shortest in the list of inaugural speeches made by former Philippine presidents. In his speech he emphasized the importance of cooperation of the people he’s being task to serve. It is by doing their part in achieving the nation’s success. He also highlighted his firm fight against criminality, drugs and corruption which he believed as the main causes of the nation’s lack of progress to poverty.
Moreover he also emphasized about the Erosion of faith and trust of the people in the government by having no faith from the country’s leaders, judiciary system and the capacity of public servants in making their lives better. For him, he was elected to the presidency to serve the entire country and was not elected only to serve the interests of any person. President Rodrigo Duterte’s speech was impressive. He was able to deliver it effectively.

He well expressed his thoughts, concepts and plans and emphasized the main points of his speech which is the goal of real change towards achieving the country’s success. I like it on how he empowered his speech with the use of lot of effective quotations from different reliable sources. Some of these quotations are from the former Presidents of America like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln and also from our National Artist for Literature Francisco Sionil Jose.
These quotations he had mentioned were relevant in supporting his statements. But what I like the most in his speech is that he delivered it not just effectively but also with humor, which he never failed to do in every speech that it catches everyone’s attention to listen. On the other hand, he could have delivered his speech in tagalog for the reason that not all of the people in the Philippines were able to speak and understand the English language particularly the people in rural areas.