4 Philippine Showbiz Today
April 22 - May 7, 2017
Cover Story
Duterte defeats Trudeau, wins TIME magazine’s
survey on most influential people in the world
President Rodrigo Duterte
of the Philippines won the 2017
TIME 100 poll of readers on who
they consider to be the most in-
fluential people in the world.
Duterte consistently led the
survey, which asked readers who
should be included on this year’s
TIME 100 — an annual list of the
world’s most influential people.
Duterte received five percent
of the total “yes” votes in the poll,
TIME magazine announced on
April 16.
Since taking office in June,
Duterte has waged an aggressive
war on drugs.
Closely following Duterte in
the TIME 100 poll were Canadian
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
Pope Francis, Microsoft cofound-
er Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg
of Facebook. They each received
three percent of the total “yes”
votes.
The poll was posted on March
24 and asked “Who