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Department of Education

“One day before resigning as Education secretary, Vice President Sara Duterte signed Department Order No. 008 adjusting the calendar for SY 2024-2025 to begin on July 29, 2024 and end on April 15, 2025.”

Vera Files rated this: Flip-flop

Vera Files says: In a Feb. 15 DepEd Order 003, Duterte set the 2024-2025 school calendar from July 29, 2024 to May 16, 2025. In April, she said public schools cannot immediately revert to the old academic calendar because teachers and l…

Sara Duterte

“Vice President Sara Duterte retracted a statement posted on her Facebook page expressing support and calling for the commemoration of the 38th anniversary of the 1986 people power revolution. Her staff said the statement was mistakenly posted without her approval.”

Vera Files rated this: Needs Context

Vera Files says: The Office of the Vice President deleted a Feb. 25 statement which would have been Duterte's first on the EDSA anniversary and would have been a significant shift from her 2017 statement questioning why the 1986 uprisin…

Sara Duterte-Carpio

“Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio thanked President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and the 250th Presidential Airlift Wing “for ensuring that wherever [she] may be found in the country during the day, [she is] home to tuck [her] children to bed.”

Vera Files rated this: Flip-flop

Vera Files says: Reynold Munsayac, the vice president’s spokesperson, said Duterte-Carpio uses the presidential chopper “only when needed for official work and functions, based on the destination and urgency of schedule.”

Rodrigo Duterte

“President Rodrigo Duterte says the Philippines will have two Dutertes sitting as president and vice president for 11 days until June 30 due to the unprecedented early inauguration of his daughter, Sara Duterte-Carpio, on June 19.”

Vera Files rated this: Misleading

Vera Files says: Although this marks the first time in Philippine history that an incoming vice president is the child of an outgoing president, their terms of office do not overlap. Section 4, Article VII of the 1987 Constitution clear…