Dalawang araw matapos kumpirmahin sa publiko ni Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio ang kanyang partnership kay presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. para sa 2022 elections, nagpahayag ng kanyang pagkadismaya si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa team-up.
Two days after Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio publicly confirmed her partnership with presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. for the 2022 elections, President Rodrigo Duterte expressed his dismay over the team-up.
When I was a college student sometime in the late 70s, my sister’s family invited me to watch the first-ever concert in the Philippines of hitmaker Dionne Warwick.
The Nov. 19 graphic carried a photo of Imee and a quote that appeared directed at President Rodrigo Duterte for his innuendo about a presidential aspirant who uses cocaine. It was published with the text “Satire MemesHor.”
The photo was actually taken during a caravan organized two days before by supporters of the former senator Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., who is also running for president in the May 2022 elections.
It was actually taken at his miting de avance in Mandaluyong in May 2016.
The statement attributed to Marcos is made up.
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.
How we wish that when presidential candidates show us their performance record, they would resort to truth telling to empower freedom of choice of Filipino voters. But this is regrettably remote from the truth in the case of Bongbong Marcos.
The president also did not name the person nor provide evidence of the allegation.
