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Philippines' Duterte pestered again as gecko stalls speech

Published 09/20/2019, 09:33 AM
Updated 09/20/2019, 09:40 AM
Philippines' Duterte pestered again as gecko stalls speech

MANILA, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo
Duterte just keeps getting bugged during his public speeches.
A noisy gecko was the latest wildlife contributor to an
address by Duterte, interrupting the leader on Thursday evening
just as he launched another tirade at human rights groups
critical of his bloody war on drugs.
The reptile's persistence caused laugher in the crowd of
mostly soldiers, causing Duterte stop mid-sentence, turn to his
left and pause for a while to see what the off-camera commotion
was.
"You brought a gecko here?" he asked an official sitting
behind him, drawing laughs.
Geckos are common across Southeast Asia. The small
lizard-like reptiles are known for their ability to produce
various loud sounds, from barks to chirps, to communicate or
when threatened.
While activists accuse Duterte of cowing his opponents into
silence, reptiles and insects have no qualms about pestering him
during his often hours-long, televised addresses.
A big cockroach https://reut.rs/2Od6b4s crawled up his
shoulder and down his shirt during a speech in May when he was
lambasting an opposition party ahead of a national election. He
joked the cockroach was its supporter. Two months later, a fly kept buzzing around him and landing
on his forehead, just as he was berating his rivals in the
Catholic clergy. He said in jest that the fly was acting on
their orders.

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