From left to right: Vice President Leni Robredo, President Rodrigo Duterte, and former Senator Bongbong MarcosPresident Rodrigo Duterte said he will respect the outcome of the poll recount for the 2016 vice presidential race, with the Supreme Court expected to make a decision soon.
The high court sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal has been tackling the poll protest filed by former Senator Ferdinand"Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. against incumbent Vice President Leni Robredo as he questioned the results of the May 2016 elections., which will be the basis of their decision on Marcos' electoral protest.nila
eventually to the Supreme Court and it will be sustained or affirmed, we will just follow the law," Duterte said in an interview with reporters on Tuesday night. "But if the law says that Robredo is the rightful occupant, then we'll just have to follow the final orders of the Electoral Tribunal or the Supreme Court. What is important here is that we follow the law."
Robredo was proclaimed vice president three years ago with a lead of 263,473 votes against Marcos during the May 2016 elections. The recount began in April 2018, two years after Marcos filed his poll protest. There are less than three years left into the vice president's term, which ends in June 2022.
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