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President Rodrigo Duterte

Philippine president. 3 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2021 to 2021. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.

Checked by Vera Files8 Aug 2021Philippines
President Rodrigo Duterte

“Support for the communist movement will continue to erode in the next few months... Like the decades-old Moro rebellion in Mindanao, we also bring an end to the armed struggle of the communists once and for all.”

Vera Files rated this: Flip-flop

Vera Files says: In the past five years of his presidency, President Duterte went from trying to talk peace with the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army, to declaring an all-out war with the move…