PRESIDENT-elect Rodrigo Duterte wants “no change” in the way he is addressed, asking the public to continue calling him "mayor."

In a televised news conference in the southern Philippine city of Davao, where he is the mayor, on Monday, Duterte said he is not comfortable with being addressed as "President."

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