Give her an executive post

THE top supporters and close associates of Mr. Duterte are justified when they boast and gloat on how the Duterte presidency will be different from the rest. Fully understandable, too, as the hangover from the big win is still there, a sense of triumphalism over a victory that was truly unprecedented. Years ago, we were all wondering on whether a run by a big-province governor or a big-city mayor was possible. Mr. Duterte did not only make that run possible but elevated it into the political stratosphere when he won that seemingly improbable run convincingly.

The confidence and euphoria is such that Mr. Duterte’s Cabinet has representatives from the political Left. Who else but The Digong can do such an offering. The truth is The Digong would be an instant nominee for “the country’s best President ever” should he succeed in convincing the Left to be a mainstream political party, minus its underground army. The route to political power, indeed, is not a Maoist insurgency but via parliamentary struggles.