Valid vote threshold sought by Robredo erroneous – Marcos

VICE President Maria Leonor Robredo invoking on Thursday the 25 percent threshold for valid votes is “erroneous,” according to the spokesman for former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

Marcos is contesting results of the May 2016 elections for Vice President, the threshold of shaded ovals as valid which then-congresswoman Robredo won over the former senator by more set by the Comelec on Vote Counting than 200,000 votes. Machines (VCMs) used in last year’s

The spokesman, lawyer Vic Rodriguez, balloting. also on Thursday explained that - against Robredo in June 2016 and “since then jurisdiction of the case has earlier motion to set the threshold for as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal] in the 2010 elections. of the Constitution.” In denying Robredo’s earlier mo

tribunal] that shall apply, her invocaof any Comelec resolution that the is erroneous as it was made by the The motion stemmed from an ongoing manual recount of the May four months after the elections,” Rodriguez 2016 votes from the provinces of said in a statement, referring to the Commission on Elections. Iloilo as sought by Marcos.

The move, he added, “is an obvious ploy on the part of the Comelec, then informed by the Comelec about such led by Chairman Andres Bautista, to threshold because the poll body sent favor Robredo once revision process starts” for votes from the May 2016 polls, which Marcos said was marred with Court Clerk of Court Felipa Anama. fraud perpetrated by the Robredo camp.

Rodriguez said the Vice President - - tial Electoral Tribunal] of systematically cally on shadings read by the VCMs. reducing her votes and castThe Comelec’s letter was a response tribunal’s] integrity. 2016 asking for guidelines of the poll

Robredo has personally asked the body for such recount.