Manila, March 24 -- Malacanang on Monday refuted claims being peddled on social media that detained former president Rodrigo Duterte gave the Marcos family the dignity to return to power, while President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. supposedly gave his Duterte a "death sentence" in a foreign land.

In a press briefing, Palace Press Officer and Presidential Communications Office Undersecretary Claire Castro stressed that it was the Filipino people, not just a single individual, who made Marcos president of the country.

"Ang nagpabalik po kay Pangulo Marcos ay ang taumbayan po, hindi po iisang tao. Pinakita po ni Pangulong Marcos kung ano ang kakayanan niya (Filipinos made President Marcos their leader, not just a single individual. President M...