Marcos camp slams Comelec's position supporting the 25% threshold

Marcos's camp slams Comelec's position at the 25% threshold

Audrey Morallo (philstar.com) – July 26, 2018 – 21:26
Manila, Philippines – The camp to lose vice presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. Thursday criticized the Commission's position on the election upholding the 25% threshold used to determine the validity of the vote at 2016 elections.

Marcos' lawyer, Vic Rodriguez, Comelec's position, which simply reiterated the fact that it applied the 25% threshold in 2016, was evidence of "conspiracy" ".

Rodriguez also accused Comelec of being a "co-conspirator" in fraud committed during the 2016 elections in which Marcos lost more than 260,000 votes to Vice President Leni Robredo.

Comelec's comment was not only "clearly illegal", but also justified by alleged cheating. Rodriguez.

"As was done with suspicion four months after the elections of May 2016 and afterwards, in support of Robredo's late assertions, Comelec's stance on the threshold An old percentage is not only illegal but at best supposed to justify the deception made to favor Ms. Robredo and influence the public opinion to support her in her ongoing attempt to cheat even more, "Rodriguez said in a statement.

Robredo He expresses excitement about the COMELEC position, saying that this proves that the 25% threshold was actually used in the last election.

She added that it shows who was really lying.

Marcos is a descendant of the family of the deceased who has committed corruption, human rights violations and cheating during his 21 years in power.

Robredo stated that Comelec's position showed that by ignoring the 25% threshold, many voters would be deprived of their electoral rights. wanted to question the manner in which Comelec undertook a false solicitation and manipulated the transmission of votes in favor of the vice-president.

The same canvassing and transmi The ssion of votes was also the same process that led to the victory of President Rodrigo Duterte, that the camp of the former senator has not questioned.

Rodriguez added that Comelec's statement that the Supreme Court sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, Comelec's position departs from that taken by the Solicitor General, who was in favor of the 50% threshold.