Duterte won’t stop talking about quitting

Bloomberg

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte keeps saying that he’s tired and ready to quit.
What’s holding him back? He’s not satisfied with his successor.
“Guys, I want you to know that I am thinking of stepping down because I’m tired,” Duterte told a group of executives and politicians at the launch of a business program. Still, he told them he didn’t think Vice President Leni Robredo, who is a member of the opposition Liberal Party, was up to the job.
“I am hesitant to suggest a constitutional succession,” Duterte said. “I have nothing against Robredo. She’s a lawyer. You have heard her talk. But I do not think she can improve on anything here.”
The speech was only the latest occasion that the 73-year-old former Davao mayor has lamented the pressures of the office. During the 2016 election campaign, Duterte said that if he failed to deliver on his promises, he could turn over the reins to Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, a suggestion he repeated in a separate speech.
Duterte has offered to quit numerous times over the past two years: if allegations of corruption against him and his children were proven; if he managed to push through a constitutional shift to federalism; if someone proved the existence of God; or if enough women signed a petition after he publicly kissed a female supporter.
“Our unsolicited advice: Just do it!,” Liberal Party vice president Erin Tanada said in a statement. “We wonder who at this point is still taking the president to his words, given that he threatens to resign at least once a month?,” Tanada said. “Let’s give the president the benefit of the doubt that this time, he meant what he said that he was thinking of stepping down.”
Marcos, the only son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, ended up narrowly losing to Robredo. Marcos is challenging the result and, if successful, could still become vice president.