Sara Duterte is nominated in 2012 World Mayor award

Davao City Mayor Sarah Duterte is one of the 88 mayors to be nominated for the 2012 World Mayor award.
"The prize is awarded to a mayor who has made outstanding contributions to his/her community and has developed a vision for urban living and working that is relevant to towns and cities across the world," according to City Mayors website.

"Among the 88 official candidates are 16 mayors from North America, 13 mayors from Latin America, 30 mayors from Europe, 19 mayors from Asia, three mayors from Australasia and seven mayors from Africa.Nominations will be accepted until mid-May." the website added. 

World Mayor longlist of
candidates for the 2012 Prize

(Last updated 11 April 2012)
North AmericaMayor Joe Fontana, London, Ontario, Canada
Mayor Carl Zehr, Kitchener, Canada
Mayor Régis Labeaume, Québec City, Canada
Mayor Dianne Watts, Surrey, BC, Canada
Mayor Rob Ford, Toronto, Canada
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Baltimore, USA
Mayor Thomas Menino, Boston, USA
Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, Gary, USA
Mayor David Bing, Detroit, USA
Mayor John F Cook, El Paso, USA
Mayor Gregory Ballard, Indianapolis, USA
Mayor R T Rybak, Minneapolis, USA
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles, USA
Mayor Tom Barrett, Milwaukee, USA
Mayor Cory Booker, Newark, USA
Mayor John DeStefano, New Haven, USA
Latin AmericaMayor Mauricio Macri, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mayor Victor Fayad, Mendoza, Argentina
Mayor Wilson Carlos Rodrigues Borini, Birigui, Brazil
Mayor Luciano Ducci, Curitiba, Brazil
Mayor Eduardo Paes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mayor Rabindranath Quinteros Lara, Puerto Montt, Chile
Mayor Gustavo Petro, Bogota, Colombia
Mayor Carlos Eduardo Calcedo Omar, Santa Marta, Colombia
Mayor Jaime José Nebot Saadi, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Mayor Alvaro Arzú, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Mayor Lorena Martínez, Aguascalientes, Mexico
Mayor Mauricio Fernández Garza, San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
Mayor Antonio Ledezma, Caracas, Venezuela
EuropeMayor Qazim Sejdini, Elbasan, Albania
Mayor Michael Häupl, Vienna, Austria
Mayor Freddy Thielemans, Brussels, Belgium
Mayor Roman Onderkan, Brno, Czech Republic
Mayor Edgar Savisaar, Tallinn, Estonia
Mayor Jussi Pajunen, Helsinki, Finland
Mayor Jean-Claude Antonini, Angers, France
Mayor Serge Goddard, Clermont Ferrand, France
Mayor Manuel Valls, Evry, France
Mayor Ottilie Scholz, Bochum, Germany
Mayor Stephan Weil, Hanover, Germany
Mayor Christian Ude, Munich, Germany
Mayor Athanassios Kousathanas - Megas, Mykonos, Greece
Mayor Éva Tétényi, Esztergom, Hungary
Mayor Matteo Renzi, Mayor of Florence, Italy
Mayor Marta Vincenzi, Genoa, Italy
Mayor Flavio Tosi, Verona, Italy
Mayor Xavier Bettel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Mayor Eberhard van der Laan, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Mayor Fabian Stang, Oslo, Norway
Mayor Jacek Majchrowski, Kraków, Poland
Mayor Rui Fernando da Silva Rio, Porto, Portugal
Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, Moscow, Russia
Mayor Pere Navarro Morera, Tarrasa, Spain
Mayor Sten Nordin, Stockholm, Sweden
Mayor Giorgio Giudici, Lugano, Switzerland
Mayor Boris Johnson, London, UK
Mayor Robin Wales, Newham, London, UK
Mayor Dorothy Thornhill, Watford, UK
AsiaMayor Han Zheng, Shanghai, China
Mayor Lin Zuluan, Wukan, China
Mayor Shraddha Shridhar Jadhav, Mumbai, India
Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak, Raipur, India
Mayor Ilham Arief Sirajuddin, Makassar, Indonesia
Governor Syahrul Yasin Limpo, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia
Mayor Tri Rismaharini (Risma), Surabaya, Indonesia
Mayor Joko Widodo, Surakarta, Indonesia
Mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Tehran, Iran
Mayor Ron Huldai, Tel Aviv, Israel
Mayor Toru Hashimoto, Osaka, Japan
Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan, Angeles City, Philippines
Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, Davao City, Philippines
Mayor Alfredo S Lim, Manila, Philippines
Sultan bin Hamdoon Al Harthy, Muscat, Oman
Mayor Song Young-gil, Incheon, South Korea
Mayor Park Won-soon, Seoul, South Korea
Mayor Hilmy Careem, Matale, Sri Lanka
Mayor Melih Gökçek, Ankara, Turkey
AustralasiaMayor Robert Doyle, Melbourne, Australia
Mayor Clover Moore, Sydney, Australia
Mayor Len Brown, Mayor of Auckland, New Zealand
AfricaMayor Mouhib Khatir, Zeralda, Algeria
Mayor Langsi Abel Ngwasoh, Bafut, Cameroon
Mayor George Aladwa, Nairobi, Kenya
Mayor Ayodele Adebowale Adewale, Amuwo Odofin LG, Lagos, Nigeria
Mayor Khalifa Ababacar Sall, Dakar, Senegal
Mayor Patricia de Lille, Cape Town, South Africa
Mayor Mondli Gungubele, Ekurhuleni, South Africa

The entire Davao community is thankful to have Duterte on the list of the nominees despite being controversial last year when she punched the sheriff.

Aside from Duterte, Mayor Alfredo Lim and Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan was also nominated.