“Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was the first majority president in the country’s electoral history.”
What Vera Files found
Although Marcos Jr. did obtain the highest number of votes in the history of the Philippine presidential elections, Quezon was the first president elected by a majority of Filipinos with 67.99% of the total votes cast in 1935, while Ramon Magsaysay holds the record for the president who won with the highest percentage of 68.90% which he gained in the 1935 elections.
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In short
Lorenzo "Larry" Gadon made this claim around 8 August 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 19 August 2023, 11 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Lorenzo "Larry" Gadon has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 0 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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