Who knows who leads?
NZPA-AFP Manila A top election official said yesterday that President Ferdinand Marcos had a 450,000-vote lead in the Philippine presidential poll, but a rival count gave Mrs Corazon Aquino a margin nearly twice as large. Heckling from supporters of Mrs Aquino forced Jaime Opinion, the second highest official of the Government’s Commission on Elections, to cut short a news conference where he announced that Mr Marcos was building a lead.
He said that unofficial COMELEC results received by telephone showed that Mr Marcos was leading Mrs Aquino 5.84 million to 5.39 million with nearly half the votes counted. The National Citizens Movement for Free Elections gave Mrs Aquino a nearly 800,000-vote lead at 4.97 million to 4.18 million.
As Mr Opinion spoke in a convention hall where COMELEC was counting the vote, a tally board nearby showed Mrs Aquino leading with 2.45 million votes to the president’s 2.35 million. This was amended soon after to show Mr Marcos taking the lead with 2.59 million votes to Mrs Aquino’s 2.55 million, with returns in from 24.49 per cent of the country’s 86,000 precincts.
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Press, 11 February 1986, Page 10
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