PET OKs Roxas poll protest, tells Binay to reply
07/13/2010 It’s all systems go, for defeated vice presidential candidate former Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas’ election protest as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) found his poll protest petition sufficient in form and substance. This was stated yesterday by court administrator and Supreme Court (SC) spokesman Jose Midas Marquez. At the same time, Vice President Jejomar Binay was also summoned by the SC convening itself as the PET to answer the electoral protest of Roxas. Marquez said The SC required Binay to submit his comment on the protest seeking to nullify his proclamation. Roxas wants a recount of some three million votes nullified by the Commission on Elections (Comelec). The Vice President was given 10 days to comply by Ma. Luisa Villarama, SC clerk of court and ex-officio secretary of PET. “The PET will see the counter claims of Vice President Binay and if he will raise a counter protest before setting the case for preliminary conference,” Marquez explained. “This is faster because the PET no longer has to go through each of the ballots and scrutinize handwritings, for example. But it still depends on the comment and counter comments of both parties,” he explained. He said previous PET cases only covered protestants who joined elections so their pending protests then were junked by the tribunal for abandonment of their protests. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100713hed2.html |
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