The camp of Vice President Leni Robredo on Thursday maintained that the statements they issued before the media on the electoral protest were meant only to counter the malicious and unfounded public remarks made by ex-senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the same platform.
“In fact, the Presidential Electoral Tribunal referred to the public statements made by Marcos when it imposed a P50,000 penalty on both parties for discussing details of the election protest publicly,” it said.
In a June 16 resolution, the PET took “particular note of the statements to the media regarding the condition of the ballot boxes undergoing revision (e.g., recently wet ballots, missing audit logs)” and it said that “such statement were circulated to insinuate fraud and anomalies attended the 2016 National and Local Elections, which could inevitably lead to the prejudgment of the Tribunal’s disposition of the case.”
According to Robredo, when the revision commenced on April 2, lawyer Vic Rodriguez, Marcos' spokesperson, had an interview with CNN Philippines, and then Imee Marcos went to the Supreme Court and entered the revision area with Marcos.
Marcos told the media that there were wet ballots and missing audit logs.