Latest from Trillanes camp at 1 p.m., June 4, 2007:
With the Comelec total count as of June 1 as basis and with the available data we already have for Basilan, Lanao Sur and Norte, Sultan Kudarat, Surigao Norte, Caloocan City and North Cotabato, ecluging only Maguindanao where we don’t have current data, Trillanes is safe at no. 11 with 11,056,608 votes.
He is over Pimentel , number 12, by 232, 794, Zubiri, number 13 by 360,234 and Recto, no, 14 by 646,152.
Even if Trillanes gets zero in Maguindanao which has 337,108 registered voters he is still no. 11 or worse no, 12.
We are confident that even with O vote in Maguindanao, we still lead Zubiri by 300,000 votes.
Hope springs eternal for Goria Arroyo’s Team Unity Miguel Zubiri and Ralph Recto.
Which makes one wonder, are they up to something? Will they be doing more COC buying? Would Recto summon the turtles who voted for him in 2001 to crawl and be counted again? Or is it just the operators’ (Gabby Claudio, Relli German, Ben Evardone, Tonypet Albano) hollow cry to justify the million, possibly billions, that they spent. Or supposedly spent.
Inquirer’s report: Facing defeat in the senatorial race, the administration’s Team Unity (TU) is pinning its hopes on less than two million votes from six provinces in Mindanao that have yet to be canvassed to push Miguel Zubiri and Ralph Recto into the Magic 12.