Is Comelec still Supporting Robredo against Marcos?

There may be some truth on Marcos’ lawyer, Atty. Vic Rodriguez’s statement that Leni Robredo is just pretending not to have money. It’s because veteran election lawyers and a government agency are still loyal to her. Rodriguez doubts very well the Comelec’s explanation why they need to have temporary custody for the ballot boxes from Maguindano, Lanao del Sur and Basilan. Are they trying to wipe out evidence?

Maguindano, Lanao del Sur and Basilan are part of Bongbong Marcos’ electoral protest. In any case, their ballot boxes must be secured. PET must not allow Comelec’s temporary custody of the said election properties. The people can never be satisfied with the outcome of the electoral protest if these fall into the wrong hands.

Rodriguez is furious with the sudden request of the Comelec to get temporary custody of the said ballot boxes just fa ew days prior to Leni Robredo’s first payment for the deposit of her counter-protest against Marcos. The timing is just very suspicious now that the preliminary conference is now set for June 21.

When it’s true that there are also ongoing protests locally for the governorship, Rodriguez or the Marcos camp as a whole is not buying the buff.  There are six electoral protests for governor filed in the 2016 elections in the ARMM region – but only the Mayoral protest in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur – Omar Ali (49.66%) vs Majul Gandamra (50.28%) is directly in the place included in the Marcos protest.

There are 42 election protest cases (EPC) pending before the Comelec locally. These are against 6 provincial governors and 3 vice governors. The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) governor is one of them. There are 21 city mayors and 4 city vice mayors. This only proves that the 2016 election is the dirtiest ever in terms of fraud.