Robredo wants SC to junk Marcos’ request for an examination of voting records in three additional provinces

(Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo has asked the Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, to junk former Senator Bongbong Marcos’ plea he be allowed to conduct a technical examination of voting records in three other areas.

In opposing Marcos’ request to secure alleged evidence of electoral fraud in Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao and Basilan, Robredo, through her lawyers, noted the three provinces were not included in the scope of the electoral protest filed by the former senator against her.

The provinces that are covered by Marcos’ poll protest and which are the subject of a manual vote recount are Camarines Sur, Negros Oriental and Mindoro.

According to Robredo, Marcos was only “desperately trying to save his dying election protest.”

“The motion is extremely premature and a deceitful way of circumventing the 2010 rules of the (PET) as amended,” she said.

Robredo was declared the winner in the 2016 vice presidential elections, but Marcos has alleged he was cheated.