PET ruling on Marcos protest just procedural: Robredo camp

The legal counselor of Vice President Leni Robredo said the Presidential Electoral Tribunal's (PET) choice on previous Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr's. race challenge is just a "procedural matter." 

Atty. Romulo Macalintal said the PET's determination just implies that the PET will continue with the case and does not in at any rate mirror the legitimacy or benefits of any assertion of extortion in the bad habit presidential races. 

"This implies Mr. Marcos is simply being given 'the chance to demonstrate his case.' The case would even now experience the typical dreary and long procedure of modification and relate of the tickets," Macalintal said in an announcement Thursday. 

PET denied Robredo's request of to reject Marcos' dissent in a January 24 determination. The tribunal rejected Robredo's contentions that it had no purview over the case and that Marcos' objection needed frame and substance. 

While the adequacy of the dissent was attested, the tribunal said "nothing has yet been demonstrated." 

"The dissent is adequate for the tribunal to continue and give the protestant (Marcos) the chance to demonstrate his case in understanding to 2010 PET standards," the body said. 

Macalintal included that it ought to be underlined that the reason for assaulting the substance of Marcos' dissent is to check its consistence with the strict prerequisites of the tenets as connected by the Supreme Court in different decision challenges. 

Robredo's camp is likewise chipping away at assisting an early determination of the case so as to maintain a strategic distance from further theories on its status, Macalintal said.