“The West Philippine Sea dispute "only became an election issue" in the May 2022 polls.”
What Vera Files found
The WPS issue, including the harassment that Filipino fishermen suffer, was raised in past national elections. On the third and final leg of the 2016 presidential debates, fisherman Carlo Montehermozo asked then-presidential candidates Grace Poe, the late Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Jejomar Binay, Mar Roxas, and Rodrigo Duterte what they would do, if elected, to stop the intimidation of Filipino fishermen by Chinese vessels.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. made this claim around 15 February 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 17 February 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has 31 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 11 of them false or fake, 20 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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