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(Eagle News) — Former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., has filed a motion for reconsideration seeking to reverse an earlier decision of the Presidential Electoral Tribunal that dismissed his poll protest against Vice-President Leni Robredo. The decision of the Supreme Court sitting as the PET was handed down in February. In his 96-page motion dated May 6, Marcos asked the tribunal to reconsider its ruling on Feb. 16, and proceed with his third cause of […]
(Eagle News) — The camp of former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., said that they want to study the decision of the Supreme Court acting as Presidential Electoral Tribunal that had unanimously dismissed their electoral protest case on the vice-presidential race results. Marcos’ camp lawyer, Atty. Vic Rodriguez, said that they wanted to “be prudent and practice utmost caution in making any statement or remark on the pronouncement made by the tribunal.” “We’re just relying […]
(Eagle News) — The Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, has dismissed the electoral protest filed by former Senator Bongbong Marcos against Vice President Leni Robredo. A statement from the SC said the dismissal was unanimous. Out of the 15 members of the tribunal who were present in today’s meeting, the statement said seven members “fully concurred in the dismissal while eight concurred in the result.” The statement said a copy of the […]
(Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo has asked the Presidential Electoral Tribunal to dismiss former Senator Bongbong Marcos’ electoral protest for what she said was his failure to “show substantial recovery” of votes in the pilot provinces of Camarines Sur, Negros Oriental and Iloilo during the manual recount. In her memorandum submitted to the PET, Robredo, through her lawyers, said the dismissal would be pursuant to Rule 65 of the 2010 PET Rules, after […]
(Eagle News)–The camp of Bongbong Marcos has slammed Romulo Macalintal, counsel of Vice President Leni Robredo for supposedly urging the former senator to drop the electoral protest against her. “Talk about freeloading. Inferring from his statement, the counsel of Mrs. Robredo has grown lazy. It has become apparent that he wants us to do his job for him,” Vic Rodriguez, Marcos’ spokesperson, said. According to Rodriguez, the “dismissal of a pending action should be based […]
Wants “voluminous” report photocopied first (Eagle News)–The camp of former Senator Bongbong Marcos has asked the Presidential Electoral Tribunal he be allowed to defer the submission of his comments on the report on the revision and appreciation of votes in Negros Oriental and two other areas. In a five-page motion, Marcos requested for the deferment until his camp gets copies of the “voluminous” documents. For this, Marcos requested the PET for specific 15 individuals to […]
(Eagle News)–The supposed increase in the number of votes gained by Vice President Leni in the latest recount of votes covering Negros Oriental and two other provinces is proof that there was fraud in the 2016 vice presidential race, former Senator Bongbong Marcos’ camp said on Wednesday, Oct. 16. In an interview over ANC, George Garcia added however that the claim of the camp of Vice President Leni Robredo that they gained 15,000 more votes […]
(Eagle News)–Vice President Leni Robredo on Tuesday, Oct. 15, said she was “half-relieved” but at the same time “frustrated” over the Supreme Court decision to release the results of the manual recount of votes covering the three pilot provinces in connection with former Senator Bongbong Marcos’ electoral protest. In a televised press conference, Robredo said she was “half-relieved” because the SC decision would allow the public to know what happened during the recount and “sino […]
(Eagle News)–Former Senator Bongbong Marcos on Tuesday, Oct. 15, said there was a need to revisit the system of filing electoral protests in the country. Marcos made the statement in a televised interview with reporters after the Supreme Court ordered the release of the results on the manual count of votes covering Iloilo, Camarines Sur and Negros Oriental in connection with his protest against Vice President Leni Robredo, and ordered the Marcos and Robredo camps […]
Asks camps of Marcos, Robredo to comment on results (Eagle News)–The Supreme Court on Tuesday, Oct. 15, ordered the release of the results of the manual recount of votes covering three pilot provinces in connection with the electoral protest filed by former Senator Bongbong Marcos. The SC made the announcement even as it failed to make a vote on a report made by Associate Justice Alfred Caguioa, the member-in-charge, on the recount as early as […]
(Eagle News)–The spokesperson of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Oct. 9, reminded the camps of Vice President Leni Robredo and former Senator Bongbong Marcos to refrain from making public statements on the pending electoral protest. Atty. Brian Keith Hosaka said the High Court, acting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, has already ruled neither camp should speak to the media on the case, based on the “sub judice rule.” Hosaka issued the statement after both camps […]
(Eagle News)–Vice President Leni Robredo will retain her post regardless of the decision of the Presidential Electoral Tribunal on the recount of ballots covering three pilot provinces. This is according to Romulo Macalintal, her lawyer, who issued a statement days after the PET said it had deferred acting on Justice Alfredo Caguioa’s September report on the recount of the votes in Negros Oriental, Camarines Sur and Iloilo, prompted by an electoral protest filed by former […]
