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BATANGAS CITY: Edwin Ermita’s lawyer bluntly stated the vice
governor’s camp is intentionally misleading the public by
spreading rumors that his client (Ermita) already withdrew his
election protest, allegedly conceding to Mark Leviste in the vice
governatorial race last year.
Lawyer Erwin Garcia, Ermita’s legal counsel
clarified yesterday that the election protest case filed by his
client hasn’t yet been resolved. In fact, he stressed, the Comelec
is still counting the ballots, clearly showing his client to be
still in the race and couldn’t be declared as defeated in the
position he ran for.
Garcia made it clear that they didn’t
“withdraw” their protest but instead, requested to stop the
recounting because out of the 5,619 “contested ballots” they
have submitted, 3,517 were confirmed as fraudulent, prompting them
to conclude that there is no longer use for a recount of the
remaining contested ballots.
Likewise, Ermita’s camp can’t understand why
Leviste’s people are spreading erroneous information that Ermita
will soon be functioning as the vice governor of Batangas, allegedly
due to machinations of Edwin’s father, Executive Secretary Ed
Ermita.
Edwin Ermita ran for vice governor during the
May elections against then Board Member Mark Leviste where it is
suggested that the Executive Secretary may have interfered in favor
of his son, an issue strongly denied by the young Ermita, claiming
he makes his own decisions and not even his father can influence
him.
“Mark’s people may have been spreading
conflicting information so that in the event that I’m already
declared as the true vice governor of Batangas, the conclusion would
be that my father has got something to do with it,” the young
Ermita told The Manila Times, urging Batangueños to be wary of
these rumors that he suggests are coming from the camp of Mark
Leviste.
The Times is still trying to reach the vice
governor as of press time.
-- Belly M. Ortodoz
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