Philippines: Manny Pacquiao ousted as president of ruling party
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The senator and boxing star was mulling a presidential bid.
Philippine senator and boxing star Emmanuel Manny Pacquiao was voted out as leader of the country s ruling party on Saturday, weeks after challenging President Rodrigo Duterte over his position on China and record on fighting corruption.
Pacquiao, 42, seen as a possible contender to succeed Duterte in next year s presidential election, had long been among the president s strongest supporters, backing his bloody war on drugs and bidding to reintroduce the death penalty.
But ties between them soured last month after Pacquiao railed at what he called Duterte s soft stance on Beijing s aggressiveness in the South China Sea and said he was probing graft in the government.
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