Vice President Leni Robredo has expressed confidence about the outcome of the manual recount of votes in the 2016 vice presidential race as part of the poll protest filed by former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Before the recount began Monday (April 2), Robredo urged her supporters to fear nothing because truth is on their side.
“Siguro to all our supporters and our friends who are here today, pinapasabi din ng ating lawyers na wala tayong dapat ikatakot. Wala tayong dapat ikatakot kasi katotohanan ang ating ipinaglalaban,” she said during the mass held at St. Scholastica’s College in Manila.
Robredo said she chose to hold a eucharistic celebration before the recount started to seek strength, wisdom and guidance from God.
“This mass is precisely for that– sinasabi natin na we’re lifting everything to the Lord. Walang dapat ikatakot, walang dapat ikahina ng loob,” she said.
The Supreme Court, acting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, will start the recount by checking ballots from Camarines Sur, Iloilo and Negros Oriental– the three pilot provinces identified by Marcos.
The recount will take place at the gymnasium at the 5th Floor of the SC-Court of Appeals (CA) Building in Padre Faura, Manila.
Robredo won by over 200,000 votes against Marcos.
The former senator, however, has claimed that he lost because of cheating.
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