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MANILA, Philippines--The government-dominated National Assembly held the first meeting yesterday on its official vote canvass, which by law will determine who won the disputed presidential election here...
...member National Assembly, made up largely of Marcos supporters, has 15 days to complete the canvass of vote tally sheets from 137 locales--74 provinces, 53 cities and 10 Manila district offices. A member of the ruling party in the assembly the job could be done in 48 hours if all precincts were on hand, but only 60 had been received yesterday...
National Assembly members, two-thirds of whom are from the president's New Society Movement, spent four hours yesterday debating rules for the canvass and then adjourned until tomorrow afternoon. The galleries were packed with Marcos supporters and Aquino loyalists who chanted their candidates' names. Thousands more gathered outside...
Certification of the election result is up to the National Assembly, which was due to begin its own separate canvass today...
Nicanor Yniguez, speaker of the national assembly, told a television interviewer that the assembly would begin an official canvass of the votes on Monday...