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Moment of truth winning senators may be proclaimed Friday
By J.Lo
“Today, we may be able to receive 80 to 85 percent of all COCs…we are expecting 175 COCs…hopefully, we would be able to finish our canvassing until Wednesday morning, at least,” Commission on Elections, sitting as National Board of Canvassers (NBOC), hopes to proclaim 12 winning senators by Friday at earliest, Comelec Chairman George Garcia said.
As of 4 in the afternoon yesterday, NBOC had canvassed 13 of the 30 Certificates OCs it received from different urbanized cities, provinces, and Philippine posts abroad.
NBOC reconvened to start official canvassing of results of senatorial and party-list elections. COCs from local absentee voting, Baguio City, and the Province of Ifugao were among first canvassed.
Garcia said NBOC will be canvassing total of 175 COCs before winning senators and party-list groups can be proclaimed.
Garcia said proclamation may also include senators and party-list congressmen who won in May 12 midterm elections.
“We are doing separate proclamation because it is ceremony…we are giving them honor, to winners because it is their moment,” he said.
Garcia said Comelec cannot yet give total voter turnout for this year’s elections because they can only see it in canvass report.
According to the poll chief, total voting population in 2022 presidential elections was 66 million, while for 2025, it is 68,438,965.
“By 2028 elections, our voting population will be at 70 to 71 million,” Garcia said.
As of yesterday afternoon, election watchdog Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting had received almost 98 percent of votes for midterm elections, with over 90,000 precincts counted.
PPCRV spokesperson Ana de Villa Singson said this resolved “significant discrepancy” it earlier flagged between data accessible to them and figures reflected on Comelec public access website in terms of election return receipt.
She said that as of 3:16 p.m. yesterday, PPCRV had already received 97.28 percent of votes, with total of 91,083 precincts counted.
Singson said PPCRV is still waiting for 2.72 percent of election results to be transmitted, but noted that this will come in “trickles already” and no movement among winning bets are expected.
In zeroing in on transmission data, Singson said in Bangsamoro region, only 73.55 percent of precincts have transmitted their results while overseas absentee voting is still at 89.26 percent.
Meanwhile, in Region XI, 94.86 percent of precincts have transmitted their results.
“Aside from these three, all regions transmitted above 95 percent already,” Singson said.
However, they could not yet verify if there was manipulation in data, following speculations raised due to delay in data transmission.
Singson said this would be determined in random manual audit, already started, and unofficial parallel count PPCRV will conduct.
PPCRV said discrepancy in data was due to “long processing time” and difference of data formats each of stakeholders with access to transparency servers receives.
“Comelec gets data in different format than we do… data on their server is immediately human readable… our data, on the other hand is machine readable, needs to be converted into format understandable by everyone,” Singson said.
PPCRV and fellow poll watchdog National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections previously sought explanation from Comelec on “delayed and incomplete transmission” of election results from automated counting machines, spurring doubts on authenticity of 2025 poll results.
PPCRV earlier noted that as of yesterday morning, Comelec dashboard was already showing around 98.75 percent transmission, but results file PPCRV received only accounts for 79.9 percent of election returns.
“Where’s 18 percent that we’re not seeing… I’m sure there’s explanation…given leadership and transparency Comelec has shown so far, thus far we have faith and we have strong hope that they’re going to explain that to us,” Singson said in press conference.
Singson also explained PPCRV encountered technical issues on evening of May 12, resulted in delayed release of its election data reports.
She said that when they received initial data from Comelec in different file formats, they observed “discrepancies” between its internal count and publicly reported figures by other transparency server receiving parties, prompting them to hold off from publishing results.
PPCRV co-IT director William Yu said after filtering “duplicates” from data, it was then that watchdog group’s data matched initial tallies.
Sen. Bong Go, emerged as top candidate in initial count of 2025 midterm senatorial elections, vowed to continue his mandate with utmost humility, hard work, and compassionate brand of public service.
Speaking across multiple media platforms following release of partial and unofficial results, Go reaffirmed his mission to serve without fanfare.
“My personal assessment is that Filipinos just want whomever they chose to just do their job. ..maybe they just don’t want trouble… just want their chosen leaders to work, so maybe, this is message that we should all buckle down to work…let’s get down to business, that’s what Filipinos expect of us to do our mandate. .. we are here to work and service our countrymen”, Go said.
As of May 13, partial results showed Go as frontrunner in 2025 senatorial race, despite what he described as most difficult campaign of his political life.
“There are about 20 percent of electorate that don’t want trouble…they want their chosen leaders to just perform their duty.”
He admitted grueling nature of campaign.
Meanwhile, Sen. Joel Villanueva congratulated in advance incoming 12 senators, advising them to brush up on their new duties in upper chamber.
“Our job is no joke, because we are not just legislators…we also work doubly hard as both lawmaker and judge,” Villanueva said after casting his vote at Bunlo Elementary School in Bocaue, Bulacan on Monday.
Villanueva was referring to senators’ role as members of impeachment court.
In upcoming 20th Congress, Senate, when it resumes session, will start tackling impeachment complaint filed against Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio over her alleged misuse of confidential funds.
Former ACT-CIS party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo, one of the anticipated senator-elects, vowed to work with members of Senate regardless of political affiliation.
“What the Filipino needs to see is collaborating crop of senators and public officials, so my first order of business once officially elected to Senate is I will talk to both sides,” he said in statement.
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