As Congress prepares to convene as the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC) on May 25 to canvass the votes for the president and the vice president, the team of VP candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr issued a statement that signals that the process won’t be as easy this year compared to previous occasions. In a statement on Sunday, May 22, lawyer George Garcia, who heads Marcos’ legal team, said they will “scrutinize each and every COC for vice president and highlight the impossibility of the partial unofficial result.” Lawyer Jose Amorado of the senator’s quick count operations has earlier said that Marcos will win by more than 100,000 votes based on their own tally of at least 100 local certificates of canvass. The Marcos camp filed complaints before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) earlier questioning alleged irregularities in the unofficial canvass.
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