The results of the May 12 polls gave the vice president's camp more ammunition for the almost simultaneous battle in Congress — the speakership in the House of Representatives and impeachment in the Senate — to discredit the Marcos administration and eventually wrest power by 2028.
The Sara kiss of death was especially seen in the city of Manila and in Batangas. She deliberately made negative campaigning for the congressmen who were potential prosecutors in her forthcoming impeachment trial in the senate. These congressmen were among the most vocal in the House Quadcomm hearings. Representative Joel Chua (Manila, 3rd district) headed the House committee on good governance that conducted seven hearings on Sara’s red-flagged use of confidential funds.
The loud Marcos-Duterte feud is pushing the plight of the marginalized out of public discussion, senatorial candidate Amirah Lidasan said.
Netizens circulated a fake quote card showing senatorial candidate Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan supposedly vowing to vote, if elected on May 12, for the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte.
As the former president is in the middle of a legal process, particularly the pre-trial stage, of the ICC, he cannot walk free unless the court approves his temporary release. A senator has no power to bring him back from detention in The Hague.
Amid the acrimonious battle between the Marcos and Duterte camps, reelectionist Sen. Imee Marcos has finally chosen whose side to take.
Netizens are circulating a clip from a campaign rally in Manila showing Vice President Sara Duterte before a crowd that supposedly chanted "Marcos! Marcos!" while she was speaking. The posts are misleading.
These narrative shifts are only possible because the Dutertes are doing Tiktok content like it’s nobody’s business… Now there is barely any pro-Marcos content, and even Imee rarely appears unless she’s with VP Sara…Now, it is all the Dutertes. The For You Page shows it, and the surveys, too.
Gutter talk, name-calling and other forms of abusive behavior are resorted to only when one runs out of substantive arguments to shift focus from the issues.
The Facebook users who spread the video needing context stitched together OCTA Research's statement disowning a survey with the real survey published by Pulse Asia.
