Vice President Leni Robredo has asked the Supreme Court sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) to junk the motion seeking the dismissal of her counter-protest against losing candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. In an eight-page comment dated May 5, Robredo said the PET should give due course to her counter-protest. (…) For the foregoing reasons, the Motion to Dismiss the Counter-Protest should be stricken off the records of this case,” the motion stated. Based on this, the tribunal required the Vice President in an order last month to pay a cash deposit of P15.43 million for her counter-protest. The PET then denied her appeal, prompting her to comply with the required cash deposit last May 2.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 09, 2017 07:29 UTC