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While the 1987 Constitution does not expressly prohibit being sworn in earlier, lawyer Christian Monsod, a member of the 1986 Constitutional Commission, said Duterte-Carpio should not take her oath of office “until there is an office to assume.”

No such bill making ROTC mandatory has been passed. Both Houses of Congress need to pass a bill on third reading, reconcile both versions, and ratify the final measure before transmitting it to the President for signing into law.

A Facebook page reuploaded a TikTok video claiming that Vice President Leni Robredo has pending cases, including sedition. This is misleading.

A video peddles false claims about the declaration of Martial Law and about former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr’s supposed ties with communists.

Netizens reuploaded a snippet of a YouTube video containing baseless claims about the Marcos family inheriting and distributing wealth.

FB post claims that Vice President Leni Robredo slept in an airport lounge for five hours. The sleeping woman in the photo is actually her daughter.

A local airline pilot alleged that Vice President Leni Robredo asked for priority landing, causing the diversion of their flight to another airport. This is false.

Marcos did not say that he favors granting a franchise to ABS-CBN. But he did say that the media network should first resolve the issues raised against it before reapplying for a franchise at the House of Representatives’ committee on legislative franchises.

False claims about contractualization, ROTC, and Bataan Nuclear Power Plant under administration of the late president Corazon Aquino.

Section 3, Article VII of the 1987 Constitution specifically states that the vice president, if appointed to a Cabinet position, is exempted from the scrutiny of the CA, which is mandated to approve or disapprove appointments made by the president.

“This announcement is FAKE. The government no longer uses quarantine levels such as ‘GCQ’ in favor of the Alert Level system, the Department of Health (DOH)’s official Facebook page said in a May 13 public advisory.

Jayne Blackwell, the Opera House’s Head of Venue and Event Sales, disowned the circulating photo in a May 16 email to VERA Files Fact Check.