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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: What you need to know about the presidential, VP hopefuls

(Fourth of four parts) In this four-part series, VERA Files Fact Check compiled relevant information about six of the top candidates vying for Malacañang, and their respective vice presidential bets, to help voters make the ultimate decision.

By VERA Files

Mar 31, 2022

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Fourth of four parts

With the overseas absentee voting set to begin on April 10, registered Filipino voters all over the world will be casting their ballots for the country’s next set of officials, including the 17th president, and determine the course of the nation’s progress in the coming years.

In this four-part series, VERA Files Fact Check compiled relevant information about six of the top candidates vying for Malacañang, and their respective vice presidential bets, to help voters make the ultimate decision.

Grouped alphabetically, each profile contains a summary of the candidates’ main platform, experience in public office or field of expertise, issues and controversies faced, relatives in government, and other interesting facts.

Likewise listed are previous fact checks of the candidate done by VERA Files Fact Check and its media and academic partners in the Tsek.ph collaboration.

(See VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Who among the 2022 hopefuls have spread misinformation)

Part 4 of this series includes three vice presidential bets, namely, cardiologist Willie Ong, Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, and Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III.

Scroll down to know more about the candidates:

Willie Ong

 

Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan

 

Vicente “Tito” Sotto III

 

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Sources

Ong

On Ong’s absence during the Mindanao sorties

Pangilinan

Kiko Pangilinan Official Facebook Page, Sana All, Nov. 9, 2021

Kiko Pangilinan Official Facebook Page, No Caption, Feb. 6, 2018

Kiko Pangilinan Official Website, Sino Si Kiko (Biodata), Accessed March 18, 2022

Kiko Pangilinan Official Website, Bakit Si Kiko, Accessed March 18, 2022

Government Experience

Issues and controversies

Family members in government

Interesting Facts

Sotto

On plagiarism

On ‘na-ano lang’

On the Pepsi Paloma rape articles

Interesting Facts

Basic information

 

(Guided by the code of principles of the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter, VERA Files tracks the false claims, flip-flops, misleading statements of public officials and figures, and debunks them with factual evidence. Find out more about this initiative and our methodology.)

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