Losing vice presidential candidate Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. will now take legal action to alleged cheating at the recently-concluded polls.
The son of the late Ferdinand Marcos will file an election protest against Vice President-elect Leni Robredo in the Supreme Court which shall sit as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET).
Marcos’ lawyer, George Garcia, on Tuesday said they would present to the PET—which hears election protests in the presidential and vice presidential contests—a 3,000-page protest that was very detailed and comprehensive. The protest covers about 40,000 precincts, or nearly half of the 96,000 clustered precincts nationwide.
Marcos camp aims to nullify election results in some areas and that also includes a judicial recount and revision of ballots.
They would also raise the issue of tampering of the transparency server of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPRCV) by a command script change.
Marcos accused massive cheating and automated fraud that eventually favored Robredo following the script change, but this was explained away by poll officials and experts as a cosmetic modification to correct name spellings.
Robredo ulimately won the vice presidency in a close race with 14,418,817 votes, 263,473 more than her rival Marcos who got 14,155,344 votes.
Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer
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