Anna Pinili, a churchgoer who considers herself a devout catholic, said Duterte had good intentions, but could have handled it better.
“He should have kissed her on the cheeks instead,” she said.
Father of two Raymond Pascual said people were making too much of a deal of it, and he thought it was just a “simple kiss”.
Making the rounds also on social media was a spoof photo of the same kiss, but with the woman replaced by superimposed image of China’s President Xi Jinping, in an attempt to poke fun at Duterte’s high regard for his Chinese counterpart.
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