THE hearing for the electoral protest filed by former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. against Vice President Leni Robredo before the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) has been postponed for another week.
Cited as reasons were a request of Associate Justice Alfredo Benjamin Caguioa to be given another week for him to have more preparation and the leave of absence of two Supreme Court justices.
One of the two PET members who were on leave was Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno.
Marcos' case will be included in the agenda of the SC's en banc session on Tuesday, July 12.
Marcos filed the protest a day before Robredo took her oath as the country's Vice President last June 30.
Robredo defeated Marcos in the May 9 vice presidential race by 263,473 votes. Robredo obtained 14,418,817 votes while Marcos got 14,155,344.
The former senator also asked the PET to declare him as the winning vice president of the May 9 elections.
Attached in Marcos' petition were 20,000 pages of affidavits, Certificates of Canvass and other supporting documents that will allegedly prove his claim of massive cheating orchestrated by his opponent who is a backed by former President Benigno Aquino III.
Caguioa is the last appointee of Aquino to the high tribunal. (Sunnex)