Pagbibilang ng pirma para sa people's initiative, sinimulan na ng ilang local Comelec office | 24 Oras
24 Oras is GMA Network’s flagship newscast, anchored by Mel Tiangco, Vicky Morales and Emil Sumangil. It airs on GMA-7 Mondays to Fridays at 6:30 PM (PHL Time) and on weekends at 5:30 PM. For more videos from 24 Oras, visit http://www.gmanews.tv/24oras.
#GMAIntegratedNews #KapusoStream
Breaking news and stories from the Philippines and abroad:
GMA Integrated News Portal: http://www.gmanews.tv
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gmanews
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gmanews
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gmanews
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/gmanews
GMA Network Kapuso programs on GMA Pinoy TV: https://gmapinoytv.com/subscribe
#GMAIntegratedNews #KapusoStream
Breaking news and stories from the Philippines and abroad:
GMA Integrated News Portal: http://www.gmanews.tv
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gmanews
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gmanews
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gmanews
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/gmanews
GMA Network Kapuso programs on GMA Pinoy TV: https://gmapinoytv.com/subscribe
Transcript
00:00 Local offices of COMELEC have already started counting signatures to support the charter change through the People's Initiative.
00:11 A former Chief Justice has reminded us that the People's Initiative cannot be used if the revisions to the Constitution are large.
00:25 In the images distributed by the Commission on Elections, you can see that some local COMELEC offices have already received signature forms to support the amendment of the Constitution through the People's Initiative.
00:39 According to COMELEC Chairman George Erwin Garcia, the signature forms came from 400 municipalities and cities and it is continuously increasing.
00:49 District 3 in Manila is included, as well as District 3 in Quezon City and COMELEC offices in Pangasinan.
00:58 Counting has also started to see if the required number of signatures, 3 percent, of registered voters in a district has been used.
01:08 Garcia said that if the right number of signatures is used, the certification will be issued to the local office of COMELEC,
01:16 which will be used by the people's initiative in receiving the petition from the COMELEC Main Office in Manila.
01:23 They need to be able to count as low as 12 percent of registered voters from the whole country.
01:30 The en-bank will issue a resolution finding sufficiency in formal substance and ordering the election officers to hold the signature pages that were submitted to them to verify the signatures.
01:44 They will look at the signatures one by one on each page and each form to know if A is a registered voter and if his registration is active as a voter.
01:55 COMELEC also said that those who issued the report, such as those who bought the signature or those who signed but don't know where their signature is for,
02:05 there is a way to get your signature back.
02:09 There is no prohibition on a person who says, "I don't understand my signature, so I got my signature back."
02:16 Our local COMELEC will just take note, "I got my signature back."
02:19 The local COMELEC can remove it.
02:21 In our ordinary life, you don't just sign anything you don't understand.
02:28 To those who support the People's Initiative, retired Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban has a reminder.
02:34 Based on a decision of the Supreme Court, only minor revisions and not major revisions can be considered amendments through the People's Initiative.
02:44 That decision stands until now. That has not been reversed.
02:48 The minor means that it is easy for people to understand the issue unlike economic revisions and the change of the government system.
02:56 It is not like the Constitutional Convention or CON-CON or Constituent Assembly or CON-AS.
03:02 In the People's Initiative, there is no chance to explain the issue.
03:06 This is the decision of the Supreme Court in 2006 in the Lambino v. COMELEC case when the People's Initiative was proposed to make the government parliamentary.
03:16 People need to understand our judgment.
03:21 If people don't understand, it is hard for them to vote. They cannot vote intelligently.
03:27 They cannot vote that this will affect their livelihood.
03:34 Because of the People's Initiative, Panganiban said that the people should be behind it, not the politicians or the government.
03:41 To avoid suspicion, former Senator Richard Gordon, a member of the 1971 Constitutional Convention, said that those behind it should speak the truth.
03:51 They have to be forthright. Because if you change the Constitution and it comes out that there is a hidden agenda, it will not be fair to the people.
03:59 For GMA Integrated News, Mackie Pulido and Sandra Aguinaldo, for Tutok Tliligay, 24 hours.
04:06 [Music]