“Former president Rodrigo Duterte says the United States has "so many bases" in the Philippines, which was made possible with the "consent" of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.”
What Vera Files found
The U.S. no longer has permanent military bases in the Philippines. The 1987 Constitution prohibited the continued stay of the bases after the 1991 expiration of the Military Bases Agreement between the two countries.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 12 April 2024. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 18 April 2024, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- globaltimes.cnhttps://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202404/1310479.shtml
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