Pres. Duterte is not lending his political clout to Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla,both charged with plunder.
It’s not because he hates plunderers despite his public declaration of “I hate corruption.” That is as hollow as his “I hate drugs” mantra.
The reason he gave for not including the two in his chosen 11 was, they asked for his support “too late,” long after he had completed his list.
(By the way, his grandson, Rodrigo “Rigo” Duterte II – son of Paolo – posted an opposition poster on his Facebook wall showing the pictures of Estrada, Revilla and Juan Ponce Enrile with the hashtag “zerovoteplunderers.”)
The grandson of Pres. Duterte shared this post in his FB wall
Former Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal.Five days before Election Day, former Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal, who supervised the first automated elections in 2010 and is now consultant of the Nationalist People’s Coalition, said there are a still lot of loose ends that need to be tied to make Monday’s election orderly. He is very concerned with very little time left to put things in order.
He wrote Comelec a letter Monday. One of the issues he raised was the procedure adopted by Comelec on the transmission of election results.
Larrazabal wrote: ““In a discussion last night with COMELEC Spokesperson Dir. Jimenez during the show with Ms Tina Monzon-Palma, it was mentioned that there is a proposed protocol in addressing possible scenarios where there may be multiple complaints on discrepancy as what was shaded in the ballot, and what appears in the voter receipt. One suggestion was that there must be a threshold on the number of complaints before the BEIs may request for a replacement VCM (Vote Counting Machine). I think this should be explored further by the Commission En Banc.”
Larrazabal said the contingency measures laid down by Comelec would result in a situation where “ the City of Municipal board of canvassers cannot transmit the results of the canvassing results of their board, ‘until results from all main SD cards have been imported’”.
Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista. Photo by Daniel Abunales, VERA Files.“Which means that the Provincial Board of Canvassers will not receive any Consolidated Results from that BOC. The result would mean that the PBOC or even NBOC will not be able to complete its canvassing, and will NOT be able to proclaim winners on the provincial level (which includes ALL Provincial positions & members of the House of Representatives). This also means that the PBOC will not be able to complete the canvassing for the position of President and Vice-President,” he further said.
The domino effect. Larrazabal said, “ would be that the National Board of Canvassers may not be able to complete the canvassing of votes for the 12 positions of Senator, and Party-list.”
“All told, the above requirement may result in the hijacking of the canvassing of votes, and the proclamation of winners, for the national positions, “Larrazabal gave a possible alarming scenario.
