Mayor of Davao City | |
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Style | The Honorable |
Residence | Davao City Hall |
Appointer | Elected via popular vote |
Term length | 3 years |
Inaugural holder | Santiago Artiaga |
Formation | 1937 |
Website | https://www.davaocity.gov.ph/ |
The mayor of Davao City is the chief executive of the government of Davao City in Davao Region, Philippines. [1] The mayor leads the city's departments in executing ordinances and delivering public services. [1] The mayorship is a three-year term and each mayor is restricted to three consecutive terms, totalling nine years, although a mayor can be elected again after an interruption of one term.
The current mayor is Sebastian Duterte, the son of former Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. [1]
On March 16, 1936, Davao Assemblyman Romualdo C. Quimpo filed a bill seeking to create the chartered City of Davao. This bill would later be signed by President Manuel L. Quezon as Commonwealth Act No. 51 on October 16, 1936. Davao City shall then be governed by a Mayor as an independent City. [2]
In 1967, the province of Davao was divided into three provinces: Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental and Davao del Sur. Geographically, Davao City became part of Davao del Sur, but was no longer its provincial capital. It became the commercial center of Southern Mindanao. This period also saw the election of an indigenous person to the city mayorship when Elias Baguio Lopez, a full-blooded Bagobo, won the 1967 local elections.
In 1972, Davao City became the regional administrative capital of Southern Mindanao. Thereafter, upon its reorganization as the regional capital of the Davao Region (Region XI), it was the sole highly urbanized city in the Davao Region.
In 1986, President Corazon Aquino appointed Rodrigo Duterte as OIC Vice Mayor. Duterte later ran for Mayor and won, taking the top post from 1988 to 1998, from 2001 to 2010, and yet again from 2013 to 2016. The incumbent city mayor is his youngest child, Sebastian Duterte. [3]
Before claiming the honor as Davao City’s first sitting mayor, Santiago Artiaga (1878–1962), one of the first pensionados (state scholars) during the American occupation, was already a colorful, if controversial, figure in Manila. As the city engineer, the highest position next to the mayor, he had clashes with the city council and, as acting city mayor, was the envy of his detractors.
In 1933, he filed an early retirement from public service, but this was not accepted. He continued to serve as city engineer until 1936 when he resigned to accept the appointment as de jure mayor of Zamboanga City. Two weeks thereafter, he was reassigned to Davao as its first city mayor.
For nearly three years Artiaga served diligently as local chief executive, but had to leave after President Manuel L. Quezon plucked him out for another assignment. On October 13, 1939, Malacañang announced his appointment as the new provincial governor of Bukidnon, replacing Agustin Alvarez who took over as the new city mayor of Davao. [4]
Rodrigo Duterte, a lawyer and former city prosecutor, served seven terms as mayor of Davao City. In 2016, he was elected as the 16th president of the Philippines.
Duterte was born on March 28, 1945, in Maasin, Southern Leyte. His father, Vicente Duterte, served as mayor of Danao, Cebu and governor of Davao, and his mother, Soledad Roa-Duterte, was a public school teacher and a noted community activist.
Duterte's rise from the legal ranks to politics began when he was named special counsel at the City Prosecution Office in Davao City in 1977. He became assistant city prosecutor two years later, serving until 1986.
In May 1986, he was appointed OIC vice mayor of Davao City by the revolutionary government of Corazon Aquino. He won as mayor of Davao City in the 1988 local elections under the Lakas ng Dabaw banner, defeating former OIC mayor Zafiro Respicio and popular broadcaster Jun Pala.
Nicknamed "The Punisher" by Time Magazine for his controversial methods, Duterte nevertheless was successful in reducing crime. Furthermore, he was credited with helping to make Davao City cleaner by enforcing a smoking ban, and for his LGBT-friendly measures. His popularity was such that he served seven terms as mayor, sidestepping term limits with stints as a congressman and vice mayor, and drew huge ratings with a weekly television program "Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa." [5]
Sara Duterte served as mayor of Davao City twice — during the first half of presidency of Benigno Aquino III and during the entire presidency of her father. She became the city's first female mayor, and the youngest to ever be elected in its history.
Duterte won as Vice President of the Philippines in the 2022 Philippine presidential election, as part of the UniTeam Alliance with former senator Bongbong Marcos, the son of the late President Ferdinand Marcos, as her running-mate for the presidency. Duterte entered the vice presidential race at the last hour via substitution after initially claiming that she had no interest in seeking a national post. [6]
No. | Name | Party | Term start | Term end | Vice Mayor | |
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Commonwealth | ||||||
1 | Santiago Artiaga | 3 December 1936 | 12 October 1939 | |||
2 | Agustin L. Alvarez | 13 October 1939 | 30 September 1940 | |||
3 | Pantaleon A. Pelayo | 1 October 1940 | 2 January 1942 | |||
Second Republic (Japanese Occupation) | ||||||
4 | Alfonso G. Oboza | 1942 | 1943 | |||
5 | Juan Melencio A. Sarenas | 1943 | 1944 | |||
6 | Donato C. Endriga | 1944 | 1945 | |||
Commonwealth | ||||||
7 | Pantaleon A. Pelayo | May 1945 | December 1945 | |||
Third Republic | ||||||
8 | Apolinario C. Cabigon | January 1946 | January 1946 | |||
9 | Fundador R. Villafuerte | 1946 | 1947 | |||
10 | Leon Maria A. Garcia | 1947 | 1949 | |||
11 | Bernardo B. Teves | Nacionalista | 1949 | 1953 | ||
12 | Rodolfo B. Sarenas | Nacionalista | 1953 | 1954 | ||
13 | Julian A. Rodriguez | Nacionalista | 1954 | 1955 | ||
14 | Carmelo L. Porras | Liberal | 1956 | 1959 | Ramon G. Morada | |
15 | 1960 | 1963 | Fermin T. Abella | |||
16 | 1964 | 1967 | Elias B. Lopez | |||
17 | Elias B. Lopez | Nacionalista | 1968 | 1971 | Manuel C. Sotto | |
Martial Law | ||||||
18 | Luis T. Santos | Kilusang Bagong Lipunan | 1972 | 1975 | Cornelio P. Maskariño | |
19 | 1976 | 1981 | ||||
Fourth Republic | ||||||
20 | Elias B. Lopez | Nacionalista | 1981 | 1986 | Cornelio P. Maskariño | |
Transitional Government | ||||||
21 | Zafiro L. Respicio | PDP–Laban | April 4, 1986 | May 2, 1986 | Cornelio P. Maskariño | |
May 2, 1986 | November 27, 1987 | Rodrigo R. Duterte | ||||
Fifth Republic | ||||||
22 | Jacinto T. Rubillar Jr. | Lakas ng Bansa | 17 December 1987 | 14 January 1988 | Gilbert G. Abellera | |
14 January 1988 | 2 February 1988 | Thelmo F. Dumadag | ||||
23 | Rodrigo R. Duterte | Lakas ng Dabaw | 2 February 1988 | 12 November 1990 | Dominador B. Zuño Jr. | |
Dominador B. Zuño Jr.(Acting) | PDP–Laban | 12 November 1990 | 11 January 1991 | Corazon N. Malanyaon | ||
Rodrigo R. Duterte | Nacionalista | 11 January 1991 | 30 June 1992 | Dominador B. Zuño Jr. | ||
24 | Rodrigo R. Duterte | Nacionalista | 30 June 1992 | 30 June 1995 | Luis C. Bonguyan | |
25 | Rodrigo R. Duterte | Nacionalista | 30 June 1995 | 19 March 1998 | Benjamin C. de Guzman | |
Benjamin C. de Guzman(Acting) | Alyansa sa Katawhan sa Dabaw | 19 March 1998 | 30 June 1998 | Danilo C. Dayanghirang (19 March 1998 — 27 March 1998) | ||
Pilar C. Braga (27 March 1998 – 30 June 1998) | ||||||
26 | Benjamin C. de Guzman | LAMMP | 30 June 1998 | 30 June 2001 | Luis C. Bonguyan | |
27 | Rodrigo R. Duterte | PDP–Laban | 30 June 2001 | 30 June 2004 | Luis C. Bonguyan | |
28 | 30 June 2004 | 30 June 2007 | ||||
29 | Rodrigo R. Duterte | Liberal | 30 June 2007 | 30 June 2010 | Sara Z. Duterte | |
30 | Sara Z. Duterte | PDP–Laban | 30 June 2010 | 30 June 2013 | Rodrigo R. Duterte | |
31 | Rodrigo R. Duterte | Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod | 30 June 2013 | 30 June 2016 | Paolo Z. Duterte | |
32 | Sara Z. Duterte | Hugpong ng Pagbabago | 30 June 2016 | 30 June 2019 | Paolo Z. Duterte | |
33 | Sara Z. Duterte | Hugpong ng Pagbabago | 30 June 2019 | 17 March 2022 | Sebastian Z. Duterte | |
Sebastian Z. Duterte (Acting) | 17 March 2022 | 30 June 2022 | ||||
35 | Sebastian Z. Duterte | Hugpong ng Pagbabago | 2022 | Present | Jesus Melchor B. Quitain Jr. |
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