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Author Archives: VERA Files
Heartwarming images of the 2022 elections
The May 9 elections once again showed that the exercise of suffrage in the Philippines is a family affair.
Surveys and rallies are not what makes candidates win
Neither survey results nor mammoth crowds in campaign rallies can make a candidate win. But somehow, these indicate a candidate's popularity or unpopularity. The actual votes we will cast next Monday are what will make candidates win.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB page criticizes Robredo for using the term ‘in a good place’
Several posts on Facebook called out Vice President Leni Robredo for her use of the term “in a good place” to describe a pleasant condition.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: 2018 post tagging 9 leftist groups as ‘party lists’ for 2022 polls MISLEADING
Only five groups on the list are in the Commission on Elections’ official list of party list contenders in the May 9 polls.
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: What you need to know about the senatorial candidates
The last of this seven-part series covers former vice president Jejomar Binay, former Ifugao representative Teddy Baguilat, former Eastern Samar governor Lutgardo Barbo, former Quezon City mayor Herbert Bautista, and former Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission chairperson Greco Belgica. Binay, if elected, will join his daughter, Nancy Binay, in the Senate.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video about ballot in New Zealand without Robredo’s name NEEDS CONTEXT
COMELEC debunked the claim on April 25, saying that the ballot was “deliberately edited to make it appear that VP Robredo’s name is missing from the list of Presidential candidates.”
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Photo does NOT show ‘collusion’ meeting between Robredo and Comelec
A photo showing Vice President Leni Robredo and officials from the Commission on Elections is circulating with false context.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: SATIRE crowd shot of Robredo’s Pasay rally misleads netizens
Netizens believed a satirical photo supposedly taken from Vice President Leni Robredo’s April 23 grand rally in Pasay City.
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: What you need to know about the senatorial candidates
Part 6 of the series covers former senators JV Ejercito, Chiz Escudero and Alan Peter Cayetano, and incumbent Sen. Leila De Lima, who has been detained since March 2017 on alleged drug-related charges. Cayetano, if elected, will join his sister, Pia Cayetano, in the Senate.