No, a campaign flyer does not show Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte running for a rival party in the 2016 elections

This image in the post below on Facebook is accompanied with the words: “Here’s a throwback from one of the original dilawans.” Dilawans means yellows, referring to the colour that represents the Liberal Party (LP).

Duterte’s predecessor, Benigno Aquino, led the Liberal Party while in power from 2010 to 2016.

The purported campaign flyer of Duterte looks very similar to a genuine one from Roxas in the 2016 election campaign, as seen in this tweet at the time from CNN Philippines.

Fans, baller bands being handed out to guests | @AC_Nicholls pic.twitter.com/EFV4hQgNA3

— CNN Philippines (@cnnphilippines) March 27, 2016

Abigail Valte, a former Aquino spokeswoman who worked for Roxas’s presidential campaign, also provided AFP a signed copy of the genuine campaign flyer.

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Both photos have the following features:

• The yellow background
• The “L” sign
• Roxas’s 2016 campaign slogan: “Walang drama, trabaho lang,” or: “No Drama, Just Work”
• The Liberal Party’s 2016 campaign platform: “Daang Matuwid”, or “Straight Path

Further evidence that the misleading campaign flyer was meant to indicate that it was the 2016 election campaign is the number three alongside Duterte's photo. This was his number on the 2016 electoral ballot.

Below is a snapshot from the Philippine Commission on Election's website below that shows the numbers of three for Duterte and five for Roxas.

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Snapshot from Philippine election commission website

However the typeface for the candidates’ names on the various flyers are different.

The election commission's website also shows Duterte ran for Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan or PDP-Laban ( Philippine Democratic Party–Power of the Nation) in the 2016 elections, not the Liberal Party.

The false post was apparently intended to highlight that Duterte, who as president regularly criticises the Liberal Party and its members, had previously been allied to it.