VERA Files
Retired Justice Antonio Carpio has urged President Ferdinand Marcos to provide security for the drilling operations of Forum Energy Ltd. when the company resumes its stalled oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea.
While disappointing, the decision was not a surprise to those who sought to invalidate his candidacy.
The two videos carried similar headlines but different contents to support their false claims.
Presidential aspirant and former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. may still be barred from running in next year’s polls.
Rosario Manalo, Philippine expert to the UN’s CEDAW, has made no such claim.
Carpio never said the first quote. The FB page spuriously twisted his actual statement from a June 13, 2018 Tempo story.
The 16-minute video’s content, composed of two clips, also did not support the claim in its headline.
Following reports by the military two weeks ago about five Chinese warships passing through Philippine waters, President Duterte last Tuesday issued a statement requiring all foreign vessels to notify Philippine authorities and to get clearance ahead of their passage.
If President Rodrigo Duterte makes a statement about his verbal fishing deal with China in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 22, then it would become “legally binding” under international law. But it would still be unconstitutional.
A timely clarification by the Department of Foreign Affairs of President Duterte’s statement setting aside the Arbitral Court ruling on the South China Sea dispute saved the Philippine win, Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio said in a forum on Maritime Disputes in the South China Sea Friday.