MANILA, Philippines — The Presidential Electoral Tribunal has partially granted Vice President Leni Robredo’s plea to set aside its earlier resolution to use a 50-perecent threshold in determining the validity of votes in an ongoing electoral recount. In a 20-page resolution, the PET said: “After assiduously going through the parties’ comments and arguments, the Court herein resolves to partially grant the Subject Motion insofar as setting aside the use of fifty percent (50%) threshold in the revision proceedings is concerned.”JUST IN: PET grants VP Leni Robredo's appeal on shading threshold for recount in VP race, lowers threshold from 50% to 25% as applied by Comelec in 2016 polls | @edupunay pic.twitter.com/Rhzffboxud — The Philippine Star (@PhilippineStar) September 26, 2018The tribunal has also stated that the “for the purposes of the 2016 elections, the fifty percent shading threshold was no longer applied.”Robredo asked for the “immediate imposition of a 25-percent threshold by the Head Revisors” in the ongoing recount. She argued that this was the threshhold used by the COMELEC in the 2016 national elections. This is a developing story.

Source: Philippine Star September 26, 2018 01:52 UTC