“Only President Duterte among the country's leaders has given the Navy two modern frigates to protect the Philippine territorial waters.”
What Vera Files found
While the two brand new frigates from South Korea were delivered during the Duterte administration, the acquisition process began in 2013, under the Aquino presidency.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Harry Roque made this claim around 8 June 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 22 June 2021, 14 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Harry Roque has 50 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 31 of them false or fake, 18 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/UZcAfbpzvXA?t=2617
- pcoo.gov.phhttps://pcoo.gov.ph/press-briefing/press-briefing-of-presidential-spokesperson-harry-roqu…
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