Pure legalese isn’t my expertise. My interest in law is predicated on how it is used or misused for the common tao (person); not to advance some private concerns of individual politicians. So, when the Zoom conference I had been invited to was turning out to be a grand display of mastery of electoral jurisprudence, I cringed at a sudden seizure of inferiority complex.

The subject of the event was the electoral protest of former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. I had prepared some questions for placing the issue in what I believed was the correct context: that the Bongbong-Leni electoral protest case has gone beyond the ambit of the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) to decide and has fallen into the mercy of hidden powers who stood to benefit from their desired verdict on the case.

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