Manila, July 8 -- House prosecution legal spokesperson lawyer Jay Tolosa said Wednesday the prosecution is not focused on vote counting or on making the 16-vote conviction threshold its immediate priority, stressing that its task is to prove the Articles of Impeachment through evidence.

At a press briefing at the Senate, Tolosa was asked about Presiding Officer Sen. Francis "Chiz" Escudero's confirmation that the impeachment court's ruling is that 16 votes are needed to convict Vice President Sara Duterte.

"Our stand on this has been consistent from the very start. We don't engage in vote counting," he said,

"Focus namin dito (our focus here) is to establish an airtight case backed by overwhelming evidence so that at the end of the da...