DEFEATED congressional bet and former vice president Jejomar Binay filed an electoral protest against Makati 1st District Rep. Romulo “Kid” Peña Jr. before the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET).
In a 70-page electoral protest, Binay’s lawyers sought to nullify the proclamation of Peña as a House member by the Makati City Board of Canvassers last May 14 and appealed to the tribunal to conduct a manual ballot recount in each of the 235 clustered precincts of the city as the race was “marred by various manifestations of fraud, anomalies, irregularities and statistical improbabilities.”
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