“We have a good Constitution. I find it in perfect condition; absolutely nothing wrong with it," former president Rodrigo Duterte said in a Jan. 7 press conference in Davao City.”
What Vera Files found
Duterte's platform when he ran for the presidency in 2016 was anchored on shifting the form of government to federalism, which is possible only by amending the 1987 Constitution, which provides for a presidential system. After he won, he created a consultative committee that drafted a new constitution, which he had approved. However, the attempt to tinker with the Constitution was unsuccessful.
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In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 7 January 2024. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 23 January 2024, 16 days later. Its rating was “Flip-flop”.
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=1GGkySmIWoo
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