Incumbent Partylist Rep. Rodante Marcoleta greets supporters before filing his certificate of candidacy for senate at the Manila Hotel on October 8, 2024. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

Halalan 2025-COC Filing

Lyza Aquino

ABS-CBN News

<p>Senatorial candidate Rodante Marcoleta is urging the Commission on Elections to allow the early proclamation of top-ranking senators in the 2025 National and Local Elections. </p><p>In a 4-page document submitted to Comelec this afternoon, the Marcoleta camp highlighted his current 6th ranking in the senatorial race with 14,895,858 votes.  </p><p>Paragraph 11 of their motion stated &quot;there is a statistical improbability that the next six candidates from 7th to 12th will no longer affect the standing of the first six candidates.&quot; </p><p>His camp requested the Commission to allow the early proclamation of top-ranking senators, including Marcoleta, whose positions can no longer be reasonably contested once reflected on the official canvass returns. </p><p>Marcoleta&#x27;s camp is also requesting the commission to clarify and put on record their explanation over the issue of discrepancies of the partial/unofficial votes, attaching in their motion the time stamp into which they noticed the difference in the number of votes garnered by Marcoleta:</p><p>&quot;The trend was likewise observed as Movant garnered Fifteen Million One Thousand Thirty Eight (15,001,038) votes as of 1:32 a.m. and dropped to Twelve Million Two Hundred Forty Four Thousand Two Hundred Nineteen (12,244,219) votes at 2:11 a.m.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Up to around five million votes of discrepancies from 12:23 a.m. to 4:03 a.m. of 13 May of 2025 were observed from Comelec&#x27;s transparency server&quot;</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UqUo9NDjqUc?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>The Comelec earlier issued a statement regarding the issue and explained that it could be an issue from the  receiving parties&#x27; (media, other groups) software, which Chairman George Garcia said did not have proper filtering of duplicate entries which were transmitted from the clustered precincts.</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ACqTxgAda9c?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>ABS-CBN is still waiting for a statement from the Comelec regarding Marcoleta&#x27;s request.</p><div> </div>

<p>Senatorial candidate Rodante Marcoleta is urging Comelec to allow the early proclamation of top-ranking Senators in the 2025 National and Local Elections.</p>

Senatorial candidate Rodante Marcoleta is urging Comelec to allow the early proclamation of top-ranking Senators in the 2025 National and Local Elections.

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Marcoleta urges Comelec: Allow early proclamation of top-ranking Senate bets

Lyza Aquino,

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Published May 14, 2025 06:19 AM PHT

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Updated May 14, 2025 08:26 AM PHT

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