Two Facebook (FB) pages and a netizen are circulating a photo – showing Vice President Leni Robredo and officials from the Commission on Elections (Comelec), among others – with false context.
The April 18 posts used a photo originally tweeted by Robredo’s eldest daughter Aika the day before, implying that the image shows the vice president and the polling body in a meeting to plan an election fraud scheme. It is wrong and baseless.
Paulo Espiritu, the Office of the Vice President’s head of media relations, said in a Viber message that no such meeting transpired between Robredo and Comelec.
Lawyer Barry Gutierrez, Robredo’s spokesperson, debunked the posts and said in another Viber message to VERA Files Fact Check that the photo was taken during the pre-debate briefing of the presidential contenders on April 3, when Comelec held its second presidential debate.
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