PDP-Laban petitions SC for manual recount of Senate votes

A petition was filed by the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) on Monday seeking a manual recount of senatorial votes in the just-concluded midterm elections.

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

The PDP-Laban stated in the petition that, “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.”

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

Before this, 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.

The Vice President 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.

The other one who won in the just-concluded midterm election was House member Rodante Marcoleta, who was endorsed by the PDP.