President Rodrigo Duterte says he does not like being called “Your Excellency”, saying he has never wanted the honorific, even when he was mayor of Davao City.
“Stop calling me ‘excellency’. Do not call me ‘Your Excellency.’ I am not ‘Your Excellency’… I appreciate it more if you call me mayor,” he reiterated in a Cabinet briefing.
The Palace earlier issued a directive instructing officials to refrain from addressing him as “His Excellency” and “Honorable” in all official communications.
