PDP-Laban seeks manual recount of Eleksyon 2025 senatorial votes

The PDP-Laban on Monday filed a petition seeking for a manual recount of senatorial votes in recently concluded midterm elections. 

PDP-Laban legal counsel Atty. Israelito Torreon filed the Motion For Leave To File Supplemental Petition for Mandamus with the Supreme Court. 

“What is essential is that the mandated process under our prevailing election laws be carried out, so that the truth may be known, accountability may be identified and exacted, and public confidence in the electoral process may be restored,” the PDP-Laban stated in its petition. 

Torreon was accompanied by singer-lawyer Jimmy Bondoc, who ran but lost in the 2025 senatorial polls. 

To recall, Vice President Sara Duterte claimed that there was fraud in the recent elections, saying that three more PDP bets “won.”

During an Independence Day event with Filipinos in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Duterte said she spoke to IT experts who said it was impossible that the numbers that came out in the elections were true.

She urged PDP to question how the counting process was done.

The two PDP-Laban bets who won in the recent midterm elections were reelectionists Christopher “Bong” Go and Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa. 

Meanwhile, House member Rodante Marcoleta, who also won, was endorsed by the PDP.

Commission on Elections Chairman George Erwin Garcia welcomed the move of PDP-Laban, adding that they will wait for the decision of the Supreme Court on the matter.

"Welcome po sa Comelec ang mga ganitong (The Comelec welcomes this kind of) remedy to prove the real mandate of the electorate. We will just wait for the SC action on this matter," he said in a message to reporters. — RSJ/AOL, GMA Integrated News

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