DAVAO CITY: Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, who backed out ahead of the presidential elections next year, has tagged Liberal Party standard bearer and outgoing Interior Secretary Mar Roxas to be behind a black propaganda against him.

The 70-year-old Duterte denied the report of a journalist-turned-publicist that he was suffering from throat cancer and that this was the reason he backed out of the presidential race.

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