Tag: Bongbong Marcos

PET orders Marcos, Comelec to answer Robredo appeal for 25 percent vote shading threshold

(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, has ordered former Senator Bongbong Marcos and the Commission on Elections to respond to Vice President Leni Robredo’s appeal for a 25 percent threshold in the shading of ballots to be implemented in the manual recount. In a resolution issued on Tuesday, April 23, the PET gave Marcos and the Comelec ten days from notice to submit their comments. In her April 18 […]

Robredo appeals PET decision junking her request for use of 25% threshold on vote validity

By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The camp of Vice President Leni Robredo has appealed the Presidential Electoral Tribunal’s decision to use the 50 percent threshold in the manual recount of 2016 vice presidential votes in connection with former Senator Bongbong Marcos’ electoral protest. Robredo said  in her April 18 urgent motion for reconsideration that the PET’s resolution dated April 10 “should be reversed and set aside” as the tribunal was “aware” of the 25 percent […]

Robredo camp: Comelec threshold for ballot shading, not PET threshold, should be followed in manual recount

(Eagle News) — The camp of Vice President Leni Robredo has asked the Presidential Electoral Tribunal to follow the threshold set by the Commission on Elections for the shading of ballots, instead of the one set by the tribunal. In an ex-parte motion, Robredo, through her lawyers, said the 25 percent threshold of the Comelec should be followed because a 50 percent threshold set by the PET in 2010 “has resulted to and will result […]

Robredo camp: Marcos spokesperson’s calls for VP to resign mere “nonsense”

(Eagle News) –The lawyer of Vice President Leni Robredo on Thursday slammed former Senator Bongbong Marcos’ spokesperson for his calls she resign following allegations some “unused ballots”  had been pre-shaded in her favor in the 2016 elections. According to Macalintal, it should be Vic Rodriguez who should resign  as spokesperson for “supplying the wrong information” to Marcos. He also called Rodriguez’s statement “a nonsense statement,” which he said “does not deserve to be dignified with any […]

Marcos notes “wet” ballots, “missing” audit logs on first day of manual ballot recount

By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Former Senator Bongbong Marcos said ballots from four clustered precincts of Bato, Camarines Sur were “wet,” which meant someone could have opened the boxes recently. “Basa. So hindi magamit. Hindi namin maintindihan papano, imposible naman siguro na dalawang taong basa yan…Palagay ko, kailangan talaga pag aralan kung paano nangyari yan,” Marcos said after visiting the  site where the  initial recount of ballots from three pilot provinces— Camarines Sur, Iloilo […]

Robredo camp: Results of manual recount to affirm Robredo is winner of 2016 VP polls

(Eagle News)– Vice President Leni Robredo’s camp on Sunday expressed confidence the results of the manual recount that is slated to start on Monday will only affirm that she was the winner in the 2016 vice presidential elections. “Kumpiyansa kami at walang dapat ikatakot sa magiging resulta ng recount dahil walang dudang si (Robredo) naman talaga ang nanalo noong 2016 elections,” lawyer Romulo Macalintal said in a statement. He said the recount would also prove […]

PET to start manual recount of VP votes in CamSur, Iloilo, Negros Oriental on Monday

By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, will start the manual recount of ballots from the three pilot provinces covered by the electoral protest filed by former Senator Bongbong Marcos against Vice President Leni Robredo on Monday, April 2. The PET made this announcement as they gave the media a tour on Tuesday of the SC Court of Appeals gymnasium, where the recount of 5418 ballots from […]

Marcos’ camp: PET has deferred start of manual recount in three pilot provinces

Recount to be done on April 2 instead of on March 19, Marcos’ spokesperson says (Eagle News) — The Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, has deferred the start of the manual recount of votes in three pilot provinces in connection with an electoral protest filed by former Senator Bongbong Marcos. Atty. Victor Rodriguez, Marcos’ spokesperson, said the start of the recount in Camarines Sur, Iloilo and Negros Oriental was moved to April […]

PET issues gag order for Marcos, Robredo in poll protest case

(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, has issued a gag order for Senator Bongbong Marcos, Vice President Leni Robredo and their lawyers to prevent them from discussing the merits of the vice presidential electoral protest. The order dated Feb. 13 was issued after the two camps repeatedly engaged in a word war in the media. Their most recent exchange involved what Marcos said were the “mysterious” squares on ballot […]

Marcos’ camp dismisses Robredo lawyer’s claim “mysterious” squares on ballot images were “new features” in 2016 poll ballots

Says Comelec never informed any candidate of presence of such (Eagle News) — The camp of former Senator Bongbong Marcos slammed the camp of Vice President Leni Robredo for its claims the “mysterious” squares on their ballot images were a new “feature,” saying the Commission on Elections never informed any candidate of the presence of such. “I dare him now to produce any briefing made by the Comelec on the presence of the squares because […]

Robredo camp says Marcos’ “mysterious” squares on ballots a “new feature” in 2016 polls

  (Eagle News) — The camp of Vice President Leni Robredo on Tuesday slammed former Senator Bongbong Marcos for saying the squares found in their copies of ballot images were “mysterious” and proof of electoral fraud, at least in the vice presidential race. “Marcos was clearly fed wrong information by his adviser or a person who was as hysterical and excited as Marcos when they saw the characteristics of the ballot images,” Robredo’s counsel, Romulo […]

Marcos camp: Robredo camp not serious about joint motion offer

(Eagle News) — The camp of Vice President Leni Robredo was not sincere in its offer to sign a joint motion that will result in the withdrawal of all their motions before the Presidential Electoral Tribunal. Former Senator Bongbong Marcos made the comment after Robredo’s lawyers filed their motion to withdraw before the Supreme Court sitting as the PET on Thursday. He was camped out in front of the SC to ask for the recount in […]