The camp of Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo has opposed a move of former senator Ferdinand Marcos to put the 2016 poll ballots in Basilan, Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur provinces under technical examination, saying it will violate the Supreme Court (SC) rules on election protests.

Romulo Macalintal, lawyer for Robredo, made the stand in an October 12 comment filed before the SC--sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal—in response to Marcos’ pleading that asked tribunal to order the technical examination of the ballots and other documents from the May 2016 elections.

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