section_path: Presidency (2016–2022)
section_name: Presidency (2016–2022)
paragraph_text: Presidency (2016–2022)
  
  Duterte was inaugurated as the sixteenth president of the Philippines on June 30, 2016, succeeding Benigno Aquino III. At age 71, Duterte became the oldest person elected to the presidency, the first local chief executive to get elected straight to the Office of the President, the second Cebuano president (after Sergio Osmeña), and the first Visayan president from Mindanao.