Liberal Party vice presidential candidate Leni Robredo (left) urges her supporters to vote for Team Daang Matuwid during a rally held at the South Cotabato Sports Complex in Koronadal City on Friday (April 1, 2016). (MNS photo)
MANILA (Mabuhay) – While it welcomes the audit of poll servers sought by Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the camp of leading vice-presidential contender and Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo said this should be conducted after the proclamation of the winning candidate.
“Bukas po siya sa pagkakaroon ng audit dahil sumasang-ayon siya na kailangang magkaroon ng transparency sa ating bilangan at sa proklamasyon. Ngunit idinidiin namin na hindi dapat ito makaantala sa proseso na ating pinagdaraanan,” Robredo’s spokesperson, Georgina Hernandez, said in a radio interview Thursday.
“Ibig hong sabihin dapat po ay magkaroon muna tayo ng proklamasyon at saka natin titignan ang posibilidad ng audit,” she said.
Congress will resume session on May 23, and will convene as the National Board of Canvassers on May 25. The NBOC is mandated to proclaim the new president and vice president.
Marcos on Wednesday formally asked the Commission on Elections to let “IT experts and programmers” from his team to conduct an audit of the servers used in the May 9 elections.
In a letter filed by his representatives, Marcos said the audit must be done in light of doubts that sprung from the “introduction of a new script” to the transparency server.
“The alteration removed the only security feature of the data by causing the hash codes to change. With the tampering of this sole security feature, how can we be assured that the data has not been altered in other ways or on other occasions?” the senator wrote.
Hernandez said they fear that the Marcos camp is attempting to prolong the canvassing of official election results.
“Ang sa amin lang ay huwag lang sanang gamitin ito, huwag sanang gamitin ng ibang kampo para guluhin o pabagalin ang nagaganap nating proseso sa ngayon,” she said.
“Hindi po magiging pabor kasi sa taumbayan ang pagpapabagal ng proseso. Nakita naman na natin iyong pagdating ng mga bilang ng boto,” Hernandez added.
According to Robredo’s camp, as of 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Robredo still leads the vice-presidential race with 14,414,933 votes or 262,643 votes more than Ferdinand Marcos Jr. who has 14,152,290.(MNS)