Congresswoman Leni Robredo is proclaimed Philippine Vice-president-elect by Senate President Franklin Drilon, second from left, and House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, third from right, during a ceremony Monday, May 30, 2016 at… Bongbong Marcos who claimed that they were being cheated by the Liberal Party machinery.
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On Senator-elect Manny Pacquiao, Duterte said he has always been a friend.
He has repeatedly said that he would not attend the proclamation rites because he had never done so in the past elections that he had won, saying attendance of elected officials had never been required.
In a press conference on Saturday, May 28, at the Hotel Elena, Davao City, Duterte said that the creation of railways system will be not in the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) but on a partnership scheme with another country.
Marcos, however, said there were irregularities in the vote counting.
A joint session of the House of Representatives and the Senate in Manila endorsed the official count of the ballots, which saw Mr Duterte win by more than six million votes.
Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. and supporters of Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo in Negros Occidental were jubilant as Congress’ final tally of election returns at past 7 last night confirmed her victory over Senator Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos in the race for vice president. “How can you make me work?”
Duterte, the 71-year-old mayor of southern Davao city, exceeded his closest rival by more than 6 million votes in an unofficial tally. “It’s important that I can sleep and take a shower comfortably”, he said, in explanation.
Robredo later told CNN Philippines that the proclamation was a “major step” for her.
Marañon congratulated Duterte and Robredo for the mandate given them by the Filipino people with the hope that after a highly divisive political exercise, we would be able to move forward as one nation.
Ferdinand Marcos’s son threatened legal action Saturday to reverse his narrow defeat in recent Philippine elections, which analysts said had been the family of the late dictator’s best chance to regain the presidency. A year after her husband, a popular reformist politician, died in a plane crash in 2012, she was reluctantly thrust into politics with a successful run for a seat in the House of Representatives.
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She said she also understand that some people are still having difficulty accepting the fact that she won the vice presidency.
