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A Philippine mayor who built a reputation for fighting crime apologised on Tuesday for a rape comment that caused a political storm and could dent his chances of winning the presidency in an election three weeks away.
Rodrigo Duterte, who opinion polls show as the frontrunner, issued a statement saying he regretted the remark about an Australian woman who was raped and killed in a prison riot in 1989.
"They raped all of the women . There was this Australian lay minister . when they took them out . I saw her face and I thought: 'Son of a b****. what a pity . they raped her, they all lined up. I was mad she was raped but she was so beautiful. I thought, the mayor should have been first,"The video of his comment, made at a recent rally, appeared on YouTube at the weekend and he had until Tuesday refused to apologise.
"This is politics. Stay out. Stay out Australian government. Stay out," tough-talking Rodrigo Duterte said after Australia's ambassador in Manila Amanda Gorely tweeted that rape and murder should never be joked about or trivialised and that "violence against women and girls is unacceptable, anywhere, anytime".
Rape and murder should never be joked about or trivialised. Violence against women and girls is unacceptable anytime, anywhere.Duterte was the top choice of 32 percent of the 4,000 respondents in the April 5-10 survey, up two points from the last poll in late March.
- Amanda Gorely (@AusAmbPH) April 18, 2016
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