- Journalist Teddy Locsin, Jr. says Grace Poe won the PiliPinas 2016 presidential debate
- Locsin says Poe talked “sharp, clear, authoritative” during the first leg of the “PiliPinas Debates 2016”
- Netizens think that Rodrigo Duterte won the debate
Who won the first PiliPinas 2016 presidential debate? If you are to ask lawyer and journalist Teodoro Locsin, Jr., Grace Poe did; without a doubt.
According to an article published by Politiko, Locsin praised Poe’s elegance and public speaking skills during the face-off with rivals Vice President Jejomar Binay, Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, and former DILG Secretary Mar Roxas.
Locsin expressed his appraisal of the candidates performance on Twitter, saying Grace Poe “was far and away the best” among the five presidential aspirants.
The former First District of Makati Representative was responding to a tweet by one social media user who posted “And the winner of the first leg of #PiliPinasDebates2016 is… Freedom.”
But Locsin offered another debate winner – Grace Poe.
He said Poe talked “sharp, clear, authoritative” during the first leg of the “PiliPinas Debates 2016” organized by the Commission on Elections (Comelec). “No groping or hiding, plain Tagalog. Awesome,” he added.
“Amazing no? What a president she will be. So elegant in white. And her lips are thin, not swelling,” Locsin said.
Locsin’s assessment goes contrary to Rappler’s online polls which say that majority of netizens think that Rodrigo Duterte of PDP-Laban was the consistent winner of the debate.
However, according to the editors of the social news network, Mar Roxas of the Liberal Party won the first round while Grace Poe won the second and third rounds.
Meanwhile, journalist Ellen Tordesillas in her own website, similarly said Poe was the winner of the debate based on her monitoring on social media and exchange of notes with friends. However, Tordesillas clarified that the survey was not scientific.
Tordesillas shared a summary of the candidates’ performance during the debate according to a political analyst and De La Salle University Professor Richard Heydarian.
The professor summed it as:
“Grace: Forceful, assertive and displayed informed familiarity with issues; Mar: Spent too much time defending status quo, but was very composed and combined a bit of drama with substance; Miriam: Took an admirably principled but unpopular position on certain issues, bravely calling for Aristotelean leadership; Duterte: Skillfully redirected questions to his own platform, and good to see him in Barong; Binay: He should start boycotting debates, unless he changes his script.”
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