THE CAMP of Vice-President Maria Leonor G. Robredo on Monday hit the “backpedaling” of defeated candidate Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on his allegations presented in his electoral protest. Ms. Robredo, in an 18-page manifestation filed before the Supreme Court, sitting as Presidential Electoral Tribunal, slammed Mr. Marcos for reneging on his earlier inclusion of the Commission on Election (Comelec) in his electoral protest. In a statement, Ms. Robredo’s camp, led by her legal counsels Romulo B. Macalintal and Maria Bernadette V. Sardillo, said Mr. Marcos’s bravado were “all for show.” Mr. Marcos, who was leading by almost a million votes early in the election count, filed an electoral protest after losing in the vice-presidential race by a slim margin of about 260,000 votes to Ms. Robredo. Comelec Chair Juan Andres D. Bautista is currently facing allegations of corruption from his wife, which could possibly be linked to the 2016 elections, and in June this year, the Department of Justice indicted several personnel of voting machine supplier Smartmatic and the Comelec for violation of the Cybercrime Prevention Act over alleged data tweaking on last year’s polls. — Kristine Joy V. Patag

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