VERA Files
Sara Duterte has indeed served notice that she is now a national power to reckon with – and that she has a fragile ego.
Several social media posts are spreading the false claim that Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte-Carpio will scrap the K to 12 education system. Posted on Facebook (FB) group […]
On the eve of her ceremonial oath-taking as the country’s 15th vice president, outgoing Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said the “singular legacy” she wants to leave behind after six years is a permanent residence for future vice presidents.
A fake quote card attributed to Vice President-elect Sara Duterte-Carpio made it look like she would add two more years to the existing K-12 basic education system. The fake graphic […]
While the 1987 Constitution does not expressly prohibit being sworn in earlier, lawyer Christian Monsod, a member of the 1986 Constitutional Commission, said Duterte-Carpio should not take her oath of office “until there is an office to assume.”
Section 3, Article VII of the 1987 Constitution specifically states that the vice president, if appointed to a Cabinet position, is exempted from the scrutiny of the CA, which is mandated to approve or disapprove appointments made by the president.
Nangangailangan ng konteksto ang pahayag ni presumptive president Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. na “ibibigay” niya sa Commission on Appointments (CA) ang nomination papers ng kanyang running mate at presumptive vice president na si Sara Duterte-Carpio bilang susunod na Education secretary.
The statement is fake. No official documents, speeches, statements or legitimate news reports carry the text in the fabricated graphic.
The clip does show a Bongbong-Sara motorcade, but it was neither recent nor taken at EDSA.
Several netizens believed the satirical page was a legitimate news organization and accused it of “biased” reporting.