A YouTube video used two TikTok clips to claim that presidential candidate Leni Robredo’s campaign spent P468 million for the PasigLaban Grand Rally last month. This is false.
Notorious for online disinformation, SHOWBIZ FANATICZ YouTube channel posted on April 2 the video with this title: “Matapos GUMASTOS ng ₱468 MILLION sa PASIG RALLY| ROBREDO INAYAWAN NA ng mga FINANCER!| “TALO KANA!”” (After spending P468 million on Pasig rally | Financiers backed out from Robredo! | “You lose!”)
SHOWBIZ FANATICZ’ three-minute video used an April 2 clip of TikTok user alagangpalma for the P468 million expense claim.
Lawyers for Leni-Pasig, who organized the March 20 PasigLaban grand rally for Robredo and vice presidential candidate Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan“ denied these allegations.
“The amount of cash and in-kind contributions spent for the PasigLaban event is less than 1% of the alleged Php 460M mentioned above,” Lawyers for Leni-Pasig told VERA Files Fact Check via email.
VERA Files Fact Check requested Lawyers for Leni-Pasig to give exact figures or a breakdown of the expenses, but no amount has been given. One percent of P468 million is P4.68 million.
“As the event was purely driven by volunteer groups, VP Leni, Senator Kiko and the rest of Senatoriables were merely invited to attend the event. No money came from the candidates nor any of their campaign teams,” Lawyers for Leni-Pasig added.
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