“President Rodrigo Duterte says he can still do something to reduce corruption before his term ends in June 2022.”
What Vera Files found
Last September, Duterte said he had offered to resign as president because he could no longer stop corruption. He campaigned and won in the 2016 elections on the platform of ending corruption in government within three to six months of his term.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 26 October 2020. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 7 November 2020, 12 days later. Its rating was “Flipflop”.
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
- pcoo.gov.phhttps://pcoo.gov.ph/presidential-speech/talk-to-the-people-of-president-rodrigo-roa-duter…
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This check was done by Vera Files, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.