ANGELES CITY – Mayor-elect Edgardo Pamintuan welcomed yesterday the electoral protest filed by defeated Mayor Francis Nepomuceno who has joined the ranks of defeated candidates claiming alleged cheating through manipulation of precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines, on top of alleged massive vote buying.
“The results (of a recount) would be the same, or our lead might even end up larger (after a recount of votes),” Pamintuan said.
He also dismissed Nepomuceno’s claims as baseless. “Mayor Nepomuceno lost because he deprived the Angelenos for three years of quality services in health care, peace and order, and transparency in expenditures of the city coffers,” he said.
This, even as Pamintuan’s lawyer Dennis Pamintuan said Nepomuceno’s administration has already incurred a deficit of P53 million.
The lawyer also said: “Angelenos strived for a clean and peaceful elections. To claim without any basis that the recently concluded elections were rigged and manipulated is grossly unfair to the Angelenos.”
In a complaint filed in his behalf by lawyer Sixto Brillantes, Nepomuceno cited “mis-scanning, miscounting and misappreciation of the shaded ovals, including pre-programmed transmission of manufactured and doctored, distorted, and pre-determined election results” during the last automated polls.
He claimed that the (CF) cards inserted into PCOS machines here were “pre-programmed” and “configured” in favor of Pamintuan.
However, poll watchers of Nepomuceno who refused to be named fearing reprisal said that “the election in this city is clean.”
“In fairness po kay Pamintuan, nakita namin na walang dayaan sa election, talagang madaming mga bumoto sa kanya dahil maghapon po kaming nasa mga polling precincts at lahat ng aming nakakwentuhan ay Pamintuan ang binoto,” they said.
Nepomuceno asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to invalidate the proclamation of Pamintuan as winner in the mayoralty race until a recount of votes is done.
He also asked the poll body to secure PCOS machines and other paraphernalia used in the automated elections in this city pending the resolution of his protest.
Pamintuan (Lakas-Kampi-CMD) won by some 27,000 votes over first termer Nepomuceno (Nationalist People’s Coalition) in the mayoralty race here.
The lawyer noted that the deficit is on top of unpaid debts, including P63 million for payment of garbage services by a sanitary landfill company, P8 million electric bills, and payments for thousands of “job order” workers and alleged ghost employees.
The next administration will also take over a local government short of official vehicles, after Nepomuceno, backed by a resolution passed by his allies in the local council donated 28 mostly brand new vehicles to his allies in the last elections.
“The results (of a recount) would be the same, or our lead might even end up larger (after a recount of votes),” Pamintuan said.
He also dismissed Nepomuceno’s claims as baseless. “Mayor Nepomuceno lost because he deprived the Angelenos for three years of quality services in health care, peace and order, and transparency in expenditures of the city coffers,” he said.
This, even as Pamintuan’s lawyer Dennis Pamintuan said Nepomuceno’s administration has already incurred a deficit of P53 million.
The lawyer also said: “Angelenos strived for a clean and peaceful elections. To claim without any basis that the recently concluded elections were rigged and manipulated is grossly unfair to the Angelenos.”
In a complaint filed in his behalf by lawyer Sixto Brillantes, Nepomuceno cited “mis-scanning, miscounting and misappreciation of the shaded ovals, including pre-programmed transmission of manufactured and doctored, distorted, and pre-determined election results” during the last automated polls.
He claimed that the (CF) cards inserted into PCOS machines here were “pre-programmed” and “configured” in favor of Pamintuan.
However, poll watchers of Nepomuceno who refused to be named fearing reprisal said that “the election in this city is clean.”
“In fairness po kay Pamintuan, nakita namin na walang dayaan sa election, talagang madaming mga bumoto sa kanya dahil maghapon po kaming nasa mga polling precincts at lahat ng aming nakakwentuhan ay Pamintuan ang binoto,” they said.
Nepomuceno asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to invalidate the proclamation of Pamintuan as winner in the mayoralty race until a recount of votes is done.
He also asked the poll body to secure PCOS machines and other paraphernalia used in the automated elections in this city pending the resolution of his protest.
Pamintuan (Lakas-Kampi-CMD) won by some 27,000 votes over first termer Nepomuceno (Nationalist People’s Coalition) in the mayoralty race here.
The lawyer noted that the deficit is on top of unpaid debts, including P63 million for payment of garbage services by a sanitary landfill company, P8 million electric bills, and payments for thousands of “job order” workers and alleged ghost employees.
The next administration will also take over a local government short of official vehicles, after Nepomuceno, backed by a resolution passed by his allies in the local council donated 28 mostly brand new vehicles to his allies in the last elections.
