Transition team created for incoming Duterte administration

Presidential frontrunner and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte attends a press conference after he cast his vote in Davao City, on the southern island of Mindanao on May 9, 2016.
Voting was underway in the Philippines on May 9 to elect a new president, with anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte the shock favourite after an incendiary campaign in which he vowed to butcher criminals. / AFP FILE PHOTO / NOEL CELIS

DAVAO CITY, Philippines—The camp of presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte has created its own “transition team” in preparation for the incoming administration.

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This was after Christopher Go, Duterte’s executive secretary, said that President Benigno Aquino III called him Tuesday to say that an excutive order will be released for the transition team’s operation.

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The members of the transition team include Go, Leoncio Evasco, Duterte’s national campaign manager; Peter Laviña, Duterte’s spokesperson; businessman Carlos Dominguez, the campaign finance chief; and lawyers Salvador Medialdea and Lorieto Ata, who served as legal team head and deputy, respectively.

The team met at the Marco Polo hotel here Wednesday. RAM