SONA 2019 Promise Tracker: Foreign Relations
The rising tensions with China in the West Philippine Sea hogged President Rodrigo Duterte’s fourth state of the nation address in 2019, where he promised two things that remain hanging to this day:
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SONA 2019 Promise Tracker: Drugs and Crime
Expressing disappointment over his failure to deliver on a campaign promise to end the drug menace, President Rodrigo Duterte repeated in his 2019 SONA his request to Congress to pass a bill restoring the death penalty on drug-related crimes and plunder.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte urong-sulong tungkol sa banta ng komunista, mali ang pahayag sa mga bakuna
Habang nagpapatong-patung ang mga petisyon laban sa bagong Anti-Terror Law, nagsalawahan si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte mula sa pagsabing ang mga komunista ang "numero unong banta" sa bansa hanggang sa sila ang "pinakamaliit" na alalahanin niya.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte flip-flops on communist threat, makes wrong claim on vaccines
As petitions contesting the newly enacted Anti-Terror Law pile up, President Rodrigo Duterte went from tagging communists as the country’s “number one threat” to saying they are the “least” of its worries.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Viral ‘disente vs bastos time’ photos MISLEAD; all taken under Duterte administration
All images were shot under the term of President Rodrigo Duterte, who took office in June 2016.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte errs on COVID-19 response timeline, pandemic history
President Rodrigo Duterte made two inaccurate claims on the government’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response and the world’s history of past pandemics.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte mali sa COVID-19 response timeline, kasaysayan ng pandemic
Dalawang maling pahayag ang pinakawalan ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte kaugnay ng pagtugon ng gobyerno sa coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at kasaysayan ng mga nakaraang pandemic sa buong mundo.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Roque na ‘hindi hiningi’ ni Duterte ang anti-terror bill nangangailangan ng konteksto; mali sa pagsasabi na naipasa ng Senado ang panukalang batas sa nakaraang Kongreso
Sa pagsisikap na ilayo si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa labis na tinutuligsang anti-terrorism bill, mali ang sinabi ni Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque na ang panukala ay sinangayunan ng Senado noon pang ika-17 Kongreso.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Roque’s claim that Duterte ‘did not ask’ for anti-terror bill needs context; errs in saying Senate passed measure in previous Congress
In trying to distance President Rodrigo Duterte from the much criticized anti-terrorism bill, Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque wrongly claimed the measure had gotten the nod of the Senate as early as in the 17th Congress.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Robredo DID NOT question Duterte’s curfew order amid COVID-19
There are no official records or media stories on Robredo saying such a thing.
