FALSE

A TikTok video is claiming that the crowd chanted “Duterte!” in the supposed Iloilo proclamation rally of the administration’s slate for the 2025 midterm elections. This is false.

The video posted on Feb. 14 had a text overlay which read:

DUTERTE ANG SIGAW NG MGA TAO… PBBM pahiya” (The crowd screams for

Duterte… PBBM, humiliated.);

Sandro Marcos na gulat sa Sigaw ng mga tao sa ILOILO Duterte..!” (Sandro Marcos, shocked that people in Iloilo chanted for Duterte!)

The clips were originally from the Feb. 11 Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas rally in Ilocos Norte—not in Iloilo— and showed the crowd cheering for President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos.

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