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Philippine Congress to officially tally votes for presidential, vice presidential bets

Xinhua, May 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

Philippine Congress is to start actual counting of the votes of the May 9 elections of president and vice president on Wednesday.

A 14-man joint canvassing committee composed of seven senators and seven congressmen is set to start the official counting of votes at the House of Representatives in Quezon City, Metro Manila.

The lawmakers will tally the votes electronically transmitted from the provinces and cities, and manually from local and overseas absentee voting.

After the official canvass of votes, which usually takes days, Congress will proclaim the winning president and vice president.

According to unofficial results from the election watchdog transparency server, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has overwhelmingly won in the presidential race with 15.97 million votes.

It was however a tight race for vice president between Camarines Sur Representative Leni Robredo and Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. with a margin of only about 200,000 votes by the former.

The winning candidates will assume their posts at noon on June 30. Endit