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Congress starts counting votes for President, VP
Congress convened on Tuesday in a joint public session to canvass the votes for president and vice-president from the May 9 elections.
Senate President Vicente Sotto III and Speaker Lord Allan Jay Velasco presided over the session at the House of Representatives.
The joint committee tasked with counting the votes consists of 14 members, with Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri and House Majority Leader Martin Romualdez heading the respective panels.
Out of 173 certificates of canvass, Congress was still awaiting the delivery of 8 certificates.
Senate President Sotto urged lawmakers to be mindful of their duty to resist attempts to derail the proclamation of the new president and vice-president.
Ferdinand "Bongbong" R. Marcos, Jr. won the election by a landslide, according to the unofficial count from the Commission on Elections server.
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