Editing Excellency (section)

=== Philippines ===
The [[President of the Philippines|president]] ([[Filipino language|Filipino]]: ''pangulo''; [[Spanish language in the Philippines|Spanish]] and colloquially: ''presidente'') is addressed in [[English language in the Philippines|English]] as "Your Excellency" and "Sir" or "Ma'am" thereafter, and is referred to "His/Her Excellency". The president can also less formally be addressed as "Mister/Madam President". In Filipino, the president may be referred to with the more formal title of "''Ang Mahál na Pangulo''", with "''mahál''" connoting greatness and high social importance.{{refn|group=nb|The [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] word "mahál" is often translated as "love" and "expensive", but its original sense has a range of meanings from "treasured" to "the most valuable". It is often applied to royalty, roughly equivalent to the Western "[[Majesty]]" (e.g. ''Mahál na Harì'', "His Majesty, the King"; ''Kamahalan'', "Your Majesty"), and at times used for lower-ranking nobles in the manner of "[[Highness]]", which has the more exact translation of ''Kataás-taasan''. It is also found in religious contexts, such as referring to [[Catholicism in the Philippines|Catholic]] [[patron saints]], the [[Blessed Virgin Mary]] (e.g. ''Ang Mahál na Ina/Birhen''), or [[Christ]] (e.g., ''Ang Mahál na Poóng [[Black Nazarene|Nazareno]]'').}}

[[Populist]] president [[Rodrigo Duterte]] has expressed dislike for the traditional title. After assuming office in June 2016, he ordered that the title, along with all honorifics, be dropped from official communications, events, and materials but instead, he be addressed only as "Mayor" since people are already used to calling him as such due to Duterte being the longest-serving [[mayor of Davao City]] and that his cabinet officials only be addressed as "Secretary". Other government officials followed suit by abandoning use of "The Honorable".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Salaverria|first1=Leila B.|title=Don't call me 'Your Excellency'|url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/798090/dont-call-me-your-excellency|access-date=19 January 2017|agency=The Philippine Daily Inquirer|date=22 July 2016|language=en}}</ref> However, despite the prior unofficial abandonment, the president continues to be addressed as "Excellency" in formal correspondences and petitions, either verbally or written.

All other local and national government officials are styled "[[The Honorable#Philippines|The Honorable]]"; both titles, however, may be glossed in Filipino as ''Ang Kagalang-galang''.