Koko could have been proclaimed senator 2 years ago — Cayetano
By Angie M. Rosales 08/13/2011Proclamation of Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III should have taken place as early as two years ago, one of the members of the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET) said yesterday, pointing out that his lead over then rival in the poll protest case, Sen. Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri, was estasblished at over 258,000 votes.
“At that time when the evidence of the counter-protest already showed that after the 25% of the counter-protest (of Zubiri) had been counted, that even if we (SET) proceeded in counting the remaining 75 percent (of his supposed spurious ballots), it can no longer overcome the lead of the protest (Pimentel). At that point, we could have already declared (the winner in the protest cast) based on my understanding and interpretation of our rules,” said Sen. Pia Cayetano.
The senator was referring to the tabulations made in the recount proceedings sometime in 2009 where the spurious ballots deducted from Pimentel was 88,561 while those deducted from Zubiri was at 365,246.
After revision and appreciation, the difference in the total number of votes of Pimentel against Zubiri was 258,166..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110813nat1.html
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