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BY ADRIAN STEWART CO
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Thursday, April 13, 2017
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MANILA – The Supreme Court, sitting as Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), ordered P81.46 million in cash payment for the election protest former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. filed against Vice President Leni Robredo.
In a decision, the high court tasked the Marcos camp to pay P66.02 million and the Robredo camp P15.43 million for the case to push through. The amount, to be settled in cash, is payable in two tranches.
Marcos has to pay P36.02 million on or before April 14, but because it is a holiday, the first deadline was moved to April 17. The other P30 million is payable on or before July 14.
Robredo, on the other hand, will have to pay P8 million for the first tranche on the same deadline and P7.43 million on the next due date. PET rules require a fee of P500 for each precinct contested.
Marcos’ camp criticized the order, citing erroneous basis for the computation. It will file a motion for reconsideration on Monday.
“Based on [the] PET resolution, it is P66 million,” lawyer and spokesperson Vic Rodriguez said. “We will file [a motion] because the basis used in the computation is erroneous. They referred to the established precincts instead of clustered precincts.”
“We are very disappointed with the way the election protest of [former] senator Marcos is treated,” he added. “Aside from this inordinate delay, this particular resolution was issued last March 21 but released and made public only April 10.”
Marcos lost the vice presidential race to Robredo by 263,473 votes in the final and official tally of the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Marcos garnered 14,155,344 votes, while Robredo got 14,418,817.
In his election protest, Marcos questioned the results in 39,221 clustered precincts in 25 provinces and five cities involving around 9 million votes.
He cited alleged pre-shading of ballots, massive vote-buying, script change in the transparency server that supposedly altered the results, preloaded secure digital cards, misreading of ballots, malfunctioning vote counting machines, and an “abnormally high” unaccounted votes/undervotes for the position of vice president./PN
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