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“Former president Rodrigo Duterte says he would stay neutral in the 2025 midterm elections by not endorsing any candidate.”
Rodrigo Duterte Claim dated 28 Oct 2024.
Vera Files rated thisFlip-flop

What Vera Files found

Duterte has already endorsed senatorial aspirants running under the PDP-Laban and support party-list groups for the 2025 elections.

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In short

Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 28 October 2024. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 13 November 2024, 16 days later. Its rating was “Flip-flop”.

Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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