A LOSING senatorial candidate in the 2016 national elections claimed on Friday that 2013 poll returns were discovered during a recount in some ballot boxes in Samar.

"Yung Calbayog, Samar, nagtataka kami...merong mga ballots na 2013 elections and we're referring to 2016 senatorial elections so kinukwestyon namin 'yun, bakit 'yung laman nung iba is 2013 ballots,” said Francis Tolentino, now President Rodrigo Duterte’s adviser on political affairs, who appeared before the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET) on Friday, the third day of a ballot recount.

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