“The monthly salary of Rodrigo Duterte when he was president was P197,000.”
What Vera Files found
From 2019 until his term ended in June 2022, Duterte’s monthly salary ranged from P388,096 to P399,739. When he assumed the presidency in June 2016, it was at P160,924 to P165,752 a month, but it increased almost two-fold in 2017 (from P215,804 to P222,278) and 2018 (from P289,401 to P298,083).
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In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 1 June 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 2 June 2023, 1 day 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
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnWGHQDX2Pw&t=176s
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