VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos DID NOT receive 21M votes in 2016 VP bid
A cursory search showed the clip was lifted from a 13-minute-long YouTube video that was already flagged as false by VERA Files Fact Check last May.
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FALSE 2016 report on Robredo’s disqualification resurfaces
The claim was invalid then because the LP was able to submit its SOCE for the elections several days before the extended deadline set by the election body. No disqualification took place and Robredo was sworn into office as the country's 14th vice president on June 30, 2016.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos nag iba ang pagtingin sa PET, sinasabi ngayon na ito ay ‘hindi patas, hindi makatarungan’
Noong 2016, ipinagtanggol mismo ni Marcos ang PET.
Comelec validating all 2016 elections contributions and expenditures
By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL The Commission on Elections on Wednesday said they are validating all statement of contributions and expenditures (SOCE) submission of candidates in the May 2016 elections where PDP-Laban candidate Rodrigo Duterte won in the presidential race. “We are validating all SOCE submissions. We are not singling out the President,” Comelec spokesperson James
Comelec probes Duterte’s campaign finance
BY MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL THE Commission on Elections Campaign Finance Office (CFO) has started looking into campaign finance records of President Rodrigo Duterte after it found that he had not declared Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos as a campaign donor in his Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE). In a speech on Oct. 4, Duterte announced
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Did Imee fund Duterte’s campaign?
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte believes he was destined for the presidency, having won despite little financial backing from politicians–if at all. If his campaign had a saving grace, it was Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos, he said. STATEMENT: Speaking before Luzon local chief executives on Oct. 4 during the Sulong Pilipinas Convention – Local Governance
Questions remain about some senator winners in May election
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS WHEN 17th Congress opens on July 25, the Senate will have a new set of 12 legislators -winners of the senatorial race in the recent May 9 elections. Not all are new faces in the Senate because there were re-electionists like Franklin Drilon, Tito Sotto, and Ralph Recto. There were also
Despite shortcomings, int’l nonprofit lauds Comelec for PWD-inclusive polls
By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL AMID reports of people with disabilities (PWDs) and senior citizens climbing a flight of stairs to vote, an international nonprofit group finds this year’s elections “disability-inclusive” compared to previous ones. In its assessment, The Asia Foundation (TAF) lauded the Commission on Elections for its widened scope of accessible polling places (APPs)
In Maguindanao’s special polls, voters prefer cops as BEI members
By FERDINANDH B. CABRERA, MindaNews SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao — Voters here say the next elections in this town should have police officers instead of teachers as members of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs) as the special elections Saturday in Barangay Katuli started and ended with no untoward incident. “Voting went on smoothly without delay and
Breakthrough implementation of IP voting in Mindoro lauded; challenges persist elsewhere
By MA. NIÑA PAMELA CASTRO and BRYAN EZRA GONZALES OFTEN disenfranchised for reasons ranging from violence to illiteracy, indigenous people (IP) voters last week were given a peek into what hopefully could be more inclusive elections in the future. In Oriental and Occidental Mindoro during the May 9 polls, a pilot initiative to bring polling places
