SPEAKER Pantaleon Alvarez of Davao del Norte called on the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to file a diplomatic protest against the US over its intelligence community report listing President Rodrigo Duterte as among Southeast Asian leaders who pose a threat to democracy and human rights.

This was based on Duterte's war on drugs, crime and corruption, as well as his threats to establish a revolutionary government and extension of martial law and policy of warrantless arrests in Mindanao even after the military defeated IS sympathizers who attacked Marawi City in May, according to the report.

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