Dressed both in white, incumbent Mayor Joseph “Erap” Estrada and former Vice Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso also received preferential treatment from election officers. Voter’s observation“We vote in the same precinct. Estrada, on the other hand, had more than the allowed one assistant inside the polling precinct. Julia Labora, one of the election officers, defended the preferential treatment for the 82-year-old Estrada, saying this was allowed for senior citizens. Belmonte was supposed to vote around 9 a.m., but she arrived around 1:30 p.m. at her polling precinct with some of her campaign staff.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 13, 2019 21:04 UTC