“It was too presumptuous of him” to make the claim, Robredo’s lead counsel says
(Eagle News)– The camp of Vice President Leni Robredo on Wednesday slammed former Senator Bongbong Marcos for saying he won the vice presidency, noting that it was “too presumptuous” of him to make the statement.
“Or he is just dreaming. If he won as vice president, why is it that it was Robredo who was proclaimed by Congress as winner?” Romulo Macalintal said.
According to Macalintal, Marcos’ reaction was “the usual reaction of an election loser who cannot accept defeat in good grace.”
He said he was “merely trying to preempt the coming results of the recount of ballots where his ridiculous and frivolous claim of massive election cheating will be proven false and a mere imagined victory..”
“For the results of the recount will just tally with the results generated by the vote counting machines from the automated election system, which Marcos himself admitted to be credible and for which his first cause of action questioning the system was dismissed by the Presidential Electoral Tribunal,” Macalintal said.
Marcos has ruled out the possibility of running for a Senate seat in 2019, saying that he did not see the need to do this since he already won the vice presidency in the 2016 elections.
He also accused the PET, where he has lodged an electoral protest against Robredo, of being biased against him.
Marcos criticized the tribunal’s magistrate officer in charge, Associate Justice Alfredo Caguioa, in particular.
In the 2016 elections, Marcos was declared as having lost to Robredo by 263,473 votes.