Lawyers of Vice President Leni Robredo and ex-senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr say the ballot recount will determine who truly won the vice presidency

MANILA, Philippines – Both the camps of Vice President Leni Robredo and her rival, former senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr, are oozing with confidence as the ballot recount for the vice presidency is set to begin on Monday, April 2. Rodriguez said in a television interview with CNN Philippines that there were at least 290,000 undervotes in Camarines Sur, Negros Oriental and Iloilo—enough to overcome Robredo’s winning margin of 263,473 votes. Romulo Macalintal was responding to a statement by Marcos spokesman Vic Rodriguez that the former legislator picked Camarines Sur, Negros Oriental and Iloilo for the recount of the votes in the 2016 vice presidential race because of the alleged high incidence of undervotes in these areas, characterized by abstentions or failure of a voter to shade the oval next to his or her preferred candidate at an appropriate threshold of 25 percent as set by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
The manual recount of the votes begin for the 2016 vice presidential candidates, former Senator Bongbong Marcos and incumbent Vice President Leni Robredo.