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“Vice President Leni Robredo questioned the whereabouts of President Rodrigo Duterte at the height of Typhoon Ulysses.”
Rodrigo Duterte Claim dated 17 Nov 2020.
Vera Files rated thisFalse

What Vera Files found

Neither were there official records, transcripts, interviews nor media reports attributed to Robredo insinuating about Duterte's absence or non-appearance in public when Typhoon Ulysses unleashed strong winds and dumped water that flooded many parts of Luzon on Nov. 11-12 .

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 17 November 2020. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 23 November 2020, 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.

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