The camp of Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to set the threshold for validly shaded ballots to 25 percent in accordance with the rules of the Commission on Elections on manual audit for the recount of votes in the 2016 vice presidential race.

Robredo’s legal counsels Romulo Macalintal and Bernadette Sardillo made the appeal in an urgent ex-parte motion filed with the high court yesterday. They asked the court to direct the head revisor to apply the correct threshold percentage as set by the Comelec in the revision, recount and re-appreciation of the ballots.

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