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A wave of criticism followed the statements of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, in which he claimed to have badually abused a maid when he was a teenager.
In a speech delivered Saturday (29), Duterte confessed to having confessed to a priest while he was sinking his hand into the panties of a maid while she was sleeping.
The feminist party Gabriela, representing women's rights groups, said Duterte was "unworthy of his position and should resign".
The President of the Philippines provoked outrage with a series of provocative comments, but continues to enjoy great popularity.
In his last statements, he described how he went into his maid's room while she was sleeping.
"I raised the blanket, tried to touch what was inside my panties," he said. "I was touching myself, she woke up, so I left the room."
He says he told the priest to return to the woman's room and try to badault her once again.
According to the president, the priest advised him to pray "five stepfathers, five marriages, because you will go to hell," according to the Philippine website Rappler.
Rich families in the country commonly employ domestic workers, and many Filipinos work as domestics in Asia and the Middle East.
Duterte's spokesman said the president "invented" and "expanded and amended" the story in his Saturday speech.
In the Philippines, human rights groups have strongly condemned the remarks that were made in the context of a speech against the Catholic Church in the context of badual abuse committed on children.
Duterte is a fierce critic of the church who opposes his "war on drugs".
The Gabriela party said that the president's speeches amount to an admission of rape.
"bad does not happen only by penile insertion," said organization secretary-general Joms Salvador. "If it's a finger or an object, it's considered a rape."
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women in Asia Pacific warned that the president's words put domestic workers at risk.
"Abusive badual practices encourage the culture of rape and, in this case, the badual abuse perpetrated against domestic workers," said Jean Enriquez, executive director of the coalition.
According to government figures, more than one million Filipinos work abroad.
This is not the first time that public opinion has disapproved of the words and actions of the President of the Philippines.
Earlier this year, he had been criticized for kissing in the mouth a Filipino government employee working overseas at a live event in South Korea.
Duterte has already provoked controversy by hugging employee
He also told the country's soldiers that they should "examine the bad" of rebellious communist women.
In April 2016, Duterte spoke at a rally for the election campaign of the murder and rape of an Australian missionary in 1989 in Davao, where he was mayor at the time.
" I was angry because she was raped, "he said." It's one thing, but she was so beautiful, the mayor should have been the first, what a mess. "Later, Duterte's office apologized.
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