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00:00According to the Supreme Court's temporary restraining order to stop the printing of balotas due to the disqualification of some aspirants.
00:11We will now listen to the comment of Chairman George Garcia. Good morning sir.
00:16Good morning Egan and good morning to our countrymen.
00:19We talked about this the other day.
00:21The names of the petitioners, are there any declared nuisances or are they just forgotten in the balot sample?
00:30Egan, the Supreme Court issued five temporary restraining orders based on the announcement of their Public Information Office.
00:39Of those five, four are local candidates and we are not yet printing balotas for those four local candidates.
00:46Of those five, four are local candidates and we are not yet printing balotas for those four local candidates.
00:51Of those five, four are local candidates and we are not yet printing balotas for those four local candidates.
00:56Of those five, four are local candidates and we are not yet printing balotas for those four local candidates.
01:01Of those five, four are local candidates and we are not yet printing balotas for those four local candidates.
01:06Of those five, four are local candidates and we are not yet printing balotas for those four local candidates.
01:11Because of that, we printed more than six million balotas.
01:16It doesn't matter anymore because we don't have the names of the so-called candidates.
01:21Therefore, we are back to zero in printing balotas.
01:26So how did that happen?
01:30But this is a TRO.
01:32If the decision of Comalec will be reduced, it will be in your favor.
01:36The TRO, the Temporary Restraining Order, is immediately executory.
01:42The TRO means that if we remove the names, we should return the names of the candidates.
01:49That's what happened because we didn't get a TRO when we will start printing balotas.
01:57That's why we continued printing balotas.
02:00At the same time, our decision, if I'm not mistaken, was issued in November regarding the declaration of nuisance
02:07of the so-called candidates and other candidates.
02:10Even though that's what happened, again, we are back to zero.
02:14We will print the correct names of the candidates.
02:17Of course, we will adjust the numbers of the candidates.
02:21If we will include their names, letter M, those under M onwards, their numbers will also be adjusted.
02:31But if Comalec will condemn that it's a nuisance, the decision will be in your favor, not in the Supreme Court.
02:39Of course, we will support the Supreme Court. It's the highest court in our country.
02:44Of course, at this point, Comalec will do everything to comply or comply with the court's order.
02:55It's really difficult because time is of the essence.
03:00In fact, at this point, I cannot tell you when we will resume printing balotas.
03:08Chairman, I want to be clear. If you said it's a nuisance, is the TRO overturned that it's not a nuisance anymore?
03:17The TRO means don't remove their names from the list.
03:25Therefore, we should return their names to the list while the Supreme Court is investigating if we're right or not that it's a nuisance.
03:35Yes. Can you tell us how much money the people have spent on the six million balotas that were wasted?
03:42It's a lot. If it's six million, multiply it by 22 pesos per balota.
03:47We have a lot of people there who are being paid overtime.
03:52We have a night shift where we print every night.
03:56We have ink, paper and we have a lot of time.
04:00But again, the Comalec will comply.
04:04Don't worry about that.
04:06We will continue our efforts in May 12.
04:08Comalec is in control of the situation.
04:10What will you do with those balotas? Will you burn them? How? Will you shred them?
04:14We will inventory them one by one.
04:19At the same time, we will count them because they will be paid by the National Printing Office.
04:23After that, we need to say goodbye to COA.
04:26We will shred them later.
04:28We might use those balotas, especially in Bangsamoro because we have finished the Bangsamoro balots.
04:37Therefore, we need to use them in front of everyone.
04:41We will shred them and show that we will not use them anymore.
04:46Chairman, why are we printing balotas if there are petitions or motions that have been submitted to the Supreme Court?
04:54We cannot stop what we're doing because someone filed a petition to the Supreme Court.
05:00For example, the 117 balotas that we declared as license,
05:03I'm sure that more than a hundred of them will go to the Supreme Court.
05:07That's very difficult. We've been waiting for two months and we still haven't printed any balotas.
05:13Therefore, we have a contingency.
05:15If the time comes that we will suddenly receive such orders from the Supreme Court.
05:22Are we on schedule? You also mentioned that you need to update the database, automated counting machine, election management system and many more.
05:32We will be delayed. That's the truth.
05:36Therefore, we need to speed up the activities that you mentioned that we need to do so that we can start printing the first balota on Wednesday.
05:49So what are the activities for the election that will be delayed following the TRO?
05:54Aside from printing, the election management system and our trusted build, even our mock election that should be scheduled,
06:07we rescheduled it on Saturday and we did 25 more or less.
06:13Hopefully, we will finish updating the database, election management system and serializing the names of the candidates.
06:21We will also update more than 1,000 balot phases across the country.
06:26Wow. Thank you very much Comrade Chairman George Garcia. Be careful.
06:30Thank you very much. Long live to you.