Robredo tops partial NBOC count

Garnering 3, 576, 643 votes, Liberal Party’s vice predsidential bet, Leni Robredo topped the canvassing of election returns yesterday. MB file photo. (John Jerome Ganzon) Robredo’s toughest rival, Ferdinand “Bong-Bong” Marcos Jr. got 3, 281, 151 votes, only about 300, 000 votes short to get ahead of Robredo. George Erwin Garcia, the legal counsel of Marcos, questioned the voter turnout for the vice president, saying that it’s too low compared to the voter turnout for the country’s top post. “How come there’s about 600, 000 ‘undervote’ for the vice presidential post?” Garcia pointed out. However, Romulo Macalintal, legal counsel of Robredo, explained that people can abstain from voting a vice president, saying that ‘undervote’ is common. “People have the freedom to abstain from voting a certain post. The public must not think that this is a sign of cheating,” he reiterated. “This is only a trick of the Marcos’ camp [...]