Rody scoffs at Guanzon dare of taking psycho test
By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
Presidential bet Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte has an answer to Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Rowena Guanzon who asked all presidential aspirants should submit medical and psychiatric records.
“Why only us, who is she? It is it because you are Comelec Commissioner? Screw you,” he said.
This after Guanzon said last week that all candidates for presidents should voluntarily submit their medical and psychiatric records because their “state of health is now part of public interest.”
On Thursday night at The Marco Polo Davao, Duterte questioned why Guanzon only required the presidential bets to take the test.
“She must also submit herself to physical and mental aptitude examination,” Duterte said.
Guanzon said, earlier in a report by GMA News Online, that the people should know because their candidates’ health, lifestyle and language are public interest.
She said the candidates should not invoke their right to privacy because they are vying for the highest position in the country.
Guanzon even thought of challenging the candidates, except Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, to run for a marathon to show how healthy they are.
Duterte, however, said if Guanzon insists on the requirement of psychiatric examination, the negative attitude of his opponents will be revealed.
“May maraming mahalata diyan kasi kapag psychological malaman kung sino ang kawatan , kung sino yung ano…Â (A lot of abnormalities will be revealed because if it is psychological, it will be known who are thief and many more),” he said.
“Kataw-anan siya [Guanzon] (She is funny),” he added.
Duterte said it will be better for Guanzon to stay silent and do her job well.
Duterte’s daughter former Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio defended her father  on the alleged issue that he is psychologically incapacitated due to his failed marriage to former wife Elizabeth Zimmerman.
Reports said Duterte will be painted as psychologically incapacitated, impulsive, selfish, and someone who makes decisions without remorse.
“He’s impulsive? He’s selfish? Does his track record in governance, as a public servant, show that he is impulsive or selfish? They do not,” she said.
Sara said her father might have failed in his marriage but definitely not as an elected public servant.
She said the court may have used it as grounds for the annulment of the marriage, but it did not say that he is unfit to become a leader.
“The court said my parents are unfit to be together in a marriage, but it did not say that my father is unfit to become our leader.”
