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MANILA.
Three days of a consistent trend landing eight opposition
bets among the top 12 senatorial candidates ended last night
when the continuation of the national canvass changed the
ratio to 7-3-2, dropping one from the opposition for a candidate
of Team Unity (TU).
Replacing
the Genuine Opposition's Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel
III in 12th spot was Miguel Zubiri, among TU candidates who
received strong support from voters in Cebu City and Cebu
province, known administration bailiwicks.
Loren
Legarda, Francis "Chiz" Escudero, Manuel Villar,
Panfilo Lacson, Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, Alan
Peter Cayetano and Antonio Trillanes IV of the Genuine Opposition
remained within the top 12 along with independents Francis
Pangilinan and Gregorio Honasan.
Pimentel
was pulled down to Zubiri's former slot at No. 14, losing
his place by almost 81,000 votes to the Bukidnon Representative.
Zubiri's
return to the top 12 was a first since he placed 10th in the
Commission on Elections count on May 21.
Vote-rich
Cebu, where more than 1.3 million voters favored most Team
Unity candidates in the polls, also fixed Edgardo Angara and
Joker Arroyo in their slots at seventh and eighth, respectively.
Cebu
lived up to its name as an administration bailiwick as totaled
votes from separate Certificates of Canvass from Cebu province
and Cebu City had seven TU candidates in the top 12, four
from GO, and independent Pangilinan at No. 1.
The
Cebu canvass had Arroyo in second and Angara in fourth, while
current non-placers in the top 12 of the national canvass,
Prospero Pichay, Mike Defensor, Ralph Recto and Cesar Montano
were third, fifth, eighth and 12th respectively.
Vicente
Magsaysay was 14th, John Osmeña, TU's Cebuano candidate,
ranked 15th, while Vicente Sotto III and Ilocos Sur Gov. Chavit
Singson were further behind at 17th and 18th. Farther down
were Tessie Aquino-Oreta at No. 21 and Jamalul Kiram was 24th.
Leaders
in the national tally, first placer Legarda and runner-up
Escudero, were ninth and 10th in Cebu.
The
opposition's placers in the national count were also out for
Cebuanos, including the opposition's Lacson, who placed 13th,
Pimentel at 16th place, Cayetano, Honasan and Trillanes.
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