Philippines Spokesman Defends President For Kissing Married Woman On Lips

Rodrigo Duterte

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesman on Tuesday defended the President after he kissed a married woman on the lips in front of thousands of cheering Filipinos in South Korea.

“The kiss really was an act that was intended to please the Filipino crowd,” presidential spokesman Harry Roque said.

“If there’s anyone who should complain, it should only be the woman who was kissed and she’s not complaining.”

Roque added that there was nothing immoral about the kiss, which Duterte asked for in exchange for a copy of a book about alleged corruption in the Catholic Church in the Philippines that he gave out at a gathering of Filipinos living in Seoul on Sunday.

“I don’t think there’s anything immoral. After all, the president has reiterated he is single,” he added.

Duterte’s marriage to the mother of his three adult children was nullified in 2000.

He has a common-law wife, Honeylet Avancena, with whom he has a teenage daughter.





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