The Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET) has dismissed the electoral protest filed by defeated 2016 senatorial candidate Francis Tolentino against Sen. Leila M. de Lima as it releases the results of the recount of the contested ballots in the pilot precincts.
In its Notice of Resolution No. 16-142 dated 21 Feb. 2019, but released only last April 4, the Tribunal granted Tolentino’s motion withdrawing his electoral protest against the former justice secretary, thereby closing and terminating the entire electoral protest he filed in June 2016.
It also granted De Lima’s motion to make public the results of the revision and appreciation of recount proceedings covering 319,228 ballots from 654 clustered precincts that were earlier examined by the Tribunal.
