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Bongbong Marcos asks PET to set preliminary conference on poll protest

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/01/26/bongbong-leni.jpg"/></figure></div><p>MANILA - Defeated vice-presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos has asked the Presidential Electoral Tribunal to set a preliminary conference on his poll protest against Vice President Leni Robredo.</p><p>In a motion, Marcos said the last pleading on the protest has been filed and served as early as September 9, 2016.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Marcos camp asks Presidential Electoral Tribunal to set preliminary conference on poll protest vs VP Robredo | <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnsonDZMM">@JohnsonDZMM</a> <a href="https://t.co/wCpWOdKH8x">pic.twitter.com/wCpWOdKH8x</a></p>— ABS-CBN News (@ABSCBNNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews/status/824490963263332352">January 26, 2017</a></blockquote><script async="" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script><p>The 2010 Rules of the Presidential Electoral Tribunal states that after the filing of the last pleading, the tribunal shall order a preliminary conference to consider:</p><p>- the possibility of obtaining stipulations or admissions of facts and documents to avoid unnecessary proof;</p><p>- the simplification of issues;</p><p>- the limitation of number of witnesses;</p><p>- the most expeditious manner for the retrieval of ballot boxes containing the ballots, election returns, certificates of canvass and other election documents involved in the election protest; and</p><p>- such other matters as may aid in the prompt disposition of the election protest or petition for quo warranto.</p><p>Marcos lost to Robredo by a slim margin of over 200,000 votes.</p><p>Last January 16, the Commission on Elections <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/16/17/data-found-in-sd-cards-of-unused-vote-counting-machines" target="_blank">found data</a> in some supposedly unused vote counting machines used in the last elections which Marcos&#x27; spokesperson Atty. Vic Rodriguez said strengthens their position that there was cheating in the May 9, 2016 elections.</p><p>Marcos in late June <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/06/29/16/marcos-files-election-protest-vs-robredo" target="_blank">filed</a> an election protest on claims of &quot;massive and blatant&quot; fraud which he says paved the way for Robredo&#x27;s win.</p><p>Robredo has maintained there had been no cheating.</p><div><strong>-- with reports from Johnson Manabat, DZMM</strong></div><div> </div>

<p>Defeated vice-presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos has asked the Presidential Electoral Tribunal to set a preliminary conference on his poll protest against Vice President Leni Robredo.</p><p> </p>

Defeated vice-presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos has asked the Presidential Electoral Tribunal to set a preliminary conference on his poll protest against Vice President Leni Robredo.