Detained Senator Leila de Lima urged on Tuesday the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET) to cite in contempt presidential political affairs adviser and losing senatorial candidate Francis Tolentino for discussing his electoral protest in the media. In a five-page motion, De Lima, through her legal counsel Teddy Rigoroso, accused Tolentino of violating the sub-judice rule after granting several media interviews about the progress of his electoral protest. “When protestant Tolentino makes false and misleading utterances, the integrity of the Tribunal’s proceedings is put in question. He also questioned why he got zero votes in Isabela City, Basilan province, and six other areas in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). De Lima criticized Tolentino’s claims, saying that the “doctrine of statistical improbability does not apply especially since she also garnered zero votes in the same precincts” that Tolentino identified as his pilot precincts.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 24, 2017 06:00 UTC