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00:00This is the Super Election Year of 2025 because of the three elections in the whole country.
00:13And regarding the preparations, we will talk to Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia.
00:18Good morning and welcome to Balitang Hali.
00:21Good morning, Ma'am Connie, and to our fellow countrymen, good morning and happy new year.
00:26Happy new year to you too, sir.
00:28And this is it, Comelec is preparing three election events for this year.
00:33How is your preparation?
00:36Oh, Ma'am Connie, we still have a lot to fix and do
00:40because we still have a lot to do regarding our preparations.
00:45But the good thing about this is that last December,
00:48our 110,000 machines arrived.
00:51Actually, that was a month early.
00:54Now, we are testing it and trying it in all the barangays across the country
00:59because this will last until January 30.
01:03More or less, we are also doing the testing of international entities at the moment.
01:10Later on, we will finalize the list of voters.
01:14Yes sir. And we heard that even the repair of our broken counting machines
01:23is already placed in different places so that it will not be transported if there are damages. Is that right?
01:31You are right, Ma'am Connie.
01:32In the first year of the history of our automated election system,
01:38we have 110 repair hubs across the country.
01:42In every province, and here in Metro Manila,
01:46every city also has repair hubs
01:50where if there is a problem with the machines or USB,
01:55it will automatically be transported to those repair hubs.
01:59Unlike before, even if it was damaged in a faraway province,
02:03our repair hub will still be transported to Santa Rosa.
02:07So this is already spread across the country.
02:10And in our testing now,
02:13how many candidates were disqualified by COMELEC
02:18and how many more will be disqualified?
02:21Three hundred were disqualified by COMELEC,
02:25including all the license candidates, national and local.
02:29You know, Ma'am Connie, we are growing.
02:32For the first time in the history of our election system here in our country,
02:36we no longer have pending license cases in COMELEC.
02:40This means that we have resolved all the license cases up to the level of NBank.
02:46And therefore, we are sure that there will be no confusion or confusion in the ballot,
02:52unless we issue a temporary restraining order from the Supreme Court.
02:57Okay. But what about the so-called nuisance candidates, Sir?
03:00Isn't that allowed?
03:02Because whenever there is an election, they also look familiar, right?
03:07Sometimes they still run, right?
03:09Isn't that if you declare them as nuisance candidates,
03:13they will not be able to run in the next elections?
03:16That's the purpose, Ma'am Connie.
03:18That's our proposal to our Congress.
03:20If they can be criminal,
03:22because once we declare them as nuisance candidates,
03:24what will happen is, Ma'am Connie, they will run and run.
03:27Others are selling their running, asking for payment.
03:30Others are just threatening the candidate and even paying the opponents.
03:35So in our opinion, to stop this,
03:38we should impose a higher penalty,
03:42even if it's a higher fine,
03:45so we can discourage others from running,
03:49even if they are being declared as nuisance candidates over and over again.
03:53Also, so that it will not be difficult for the Komelek,
03:56they should be disqualified over and over again.
03:58Isn't that a waste of time and effort on your part?
04:01That's right. That's right.
04:02Ma'am Connie, this is a long decision.
04:05Yes, sir.
04:12Alright.
04:35Alright.
04:56Thank you, Ma'am Connie. Long live.
04:58Happy New Year.
05:00Happy New Year also.
05:01This is Komelek Chairman George Erwin Garcia.