Sen. Bongbong Marcos Leads Partial Count Of Overseas Votes
Vice Presidential candidate Sen. Bongbong Marcos leads the partial count of the overseas votes against his close rival, Rep. Leni Robredo.
According to a report on GMA News, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Commissioner Rowena Guanzon have said that Marcos has 156, 123 votes while his rival, Camarines Sur Representative Leni Robredo got 84, 144 votes.
Bongbong Marcos led with about 73,000 votes.
In the meantime, the COMELEC is waiting for the remaining votes and results which will be coming from Bahrain, Rome, and Tel Aviv in Israel.
In the partial and unofficial vote results from the COMELEC Transparency server, Rep. Leni Robredo is currently leading with 14,014,440 votes as of 10:53 AM, May 14, 2016. This represents the 96.05% of the total Election Returns.
Meanwhile, Bongbong Marcos is trailing with 13,798,059 votes.
The COMELEC even pointed out the importance of the over 429,000 votes being waited from the overseas Filipinos in the close race between Marcos and Robredo.
“This is important because you have to understand, we are looking at more than 400,000 votes from overseas and the leads of the candidates are very small,” said James Jimenez of the poll body.
According to the report, there is a total of 1,386,087 Filipinos who have signed up for the overseas voting.
The COMELEC still considers he registration numbers and the voting numbers to be “record-breaking” despite of the agency’s not meeting of the 80-percent target turnout.
Can the lead of Bongbong Marcos in the overseas votes change the race and win the elections as Vice President of the republic of the Philippines?
Or Rep. Leni Robredo will just rule out and have her a seat in the Vice Presidential office?
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