Supporters raise P7.4 M for Leni

MANILA, Philippines - Supporters of Vice President Leni Robredo have raised P7.4 million through an online fundraising to help her pay the remaining fee for her counter-electoral protest against former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.  

“We have raised the money needed to cover the amount for the Vice President’s counter-protest,” Museo Pambata founder Cristina Lim-Yuson, one of the proponents of the Piso Para Kay Leni campaign, said.

The group is still waiting for a decision of the Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, on its motion for reconsideration of an earlier order denying their petition to pay the amount on behalf of Robredo.

As of 5:20 p.m. on Wednesday, Yuson said they have raised P7,442,859.34.

Yuson said the more than 25,000 people who contributed to Robredo’s counter-protest fee want to guard their votes for the Vice President.

Aside from Yuson, the other proponents of the online movement are former social welfare secretary Dinky Soliman, former human rights commissioner Paulynn Sicam, former PAG-Ibig Fund chief executive officer Zorayda Amelia Alonzo, singer Celeste Legaspi-Gallardo and Ateneo de Manila University press director Karina Bolasco.

The SC has granted the request of Robredo’s lawyers for an extension of the deadline to pay the remaining P7.43 million required to process her counter-protest against Marcos.

Robredo paid an initial deposit of P8 million last May.

Marcos is contesting the poll results in 39,221 clustered precincts. Robredo’s counter-protest covers 8,042 clustered precincts.

Marcos has paid in full the protest fee of P66.02 million.