Comelec, OSG to file poll comments this week

The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) are expected to submit to the Supreme Court this week their opinions on the election protest filed by former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. against Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo.

The Manila Times learned from well-placed sources in the Supreme Court that the court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), wants comments from the Solicitor General and Comelec as it deliberates on whether it can annul votes from the poll precincts in Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao and Basilan where Marcos claimed that irregularities took place.