FACT CHECK: Vic Rodriguez video supporting VP Sara’s impeachment FALSE
Netizens resurfaced an out-of-context video of former executive secretary Vic Rodriguez supposedly calling Sara Duterte's impeachment.
Netizens resurfaced an out-of-context video of former executive secretary Vic Rodriguez supposedly calling Sara Duterte's impeachment.
Claims that former president Rodrigo Duterte might return to the Philippines on May 31, the birthday of his daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, have no basis.
A viral Facebook reel is showing Vice President Sara Duterte supposedly announcing that her father is returning home soon. This is false.
A social media card on Sen. Bong Go supposedly admitting that Vice President Sara Duterte has no contribution to his reelection bid has circulated online. This is fabricated.
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.