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(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 […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The vice-president of the Philippines issued a public apology on Tuesday, April 17, for a photograph showing her and members of her political party posing and smiling at a German Holocaust memorial. Leni Robredo, who was elected separately from President Rodrigo Duterte, attracted widespread criticism over the photo, which was posted on Twitter by a lawmaker from her opposition Liberal Party. “While there was no malice in it, I take full […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service (Eagle News) – Just a day after the official start of the manual recount of votes for vice-president, four of the head revisors supervising the counting decided to withdraw. There was no reason why the four head supervisors of the Presidential Electoral Tribunal begged off on Tuesday, April 3, from the work of the manual recount, but there were four alternates who would take their place, so the 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 […]
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 […]
(Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo on Thursday said she would be “open to” accepting another Cabinet post. In an interview over CNN Philippines, Robredo said, however, that so far, she “doe(s not) see” the offer coming. If it happens though, she said “it is necessary that we discuss things.” “I would be very much willing to support what (President Rodrigo Duterte) is doing but if there are things that we don’t agree on, kailangan […]
(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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
Assailed evidence came from the tribunal, a Marcos spokesperson says (Eagle News) — The camp of former Senator Bongbong Marcos on Wednesday accused Vice President Leni Robredo of “dishonoring” the Presidential Electoral Tribunal. Lawyer Victor Rodriguez, Marcos’ spokesperson, said Robredo did this when her lawyer Romulo Macalintal accused the former senator of “tampering evidence” in support of Marcos’ electoral protest against her. Macalintal was referring to the ballots which Marcos showed the media in a […]
(Eagle News) — A lawyer for Vice President Leni Robredo on Wednesday slammed Communications Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy after she accused the second highest-ranking official in the country of being a “purveyor of fake news” in a Senate hearing on Tuesday. “If this is the Lorraine Badoy who insisted that a high school class project was an ‘LP publication,’ and, when corrected, refused to accept her mistake and tried to bully Jillian Robredo and her high school […]
(Eagle News) — Former Senator Bongbong Marcos should be blamed for the delay in the resolution of his election protest, the camp of Vice President Leni Robredo said on Monday. Lawyer Romulo Macalintal said in a statement that in the first place, Marcos’ protest was “weak and flawed,” such that “the Presidential Electoral Tribunal has to resolve many preliminary matters before the case could move on.” He noted that it was the former senator “who […]
