Comelec to abide by decision to postpone BARMM elections

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00:00On the other news, the poll body's effort to begin ballot printing hit yet another major snag,

00:06with the president seeking a rain check on the BARM election slated for May over PSN order reasons.

00:13Now the time window to complete ballot printing for the May polls has gotten even smaller for the COMELEC,

00:20which finds itself likely to change the list of candidates for the parliamentary polls

00:26and seek for added funds, as our Louisa Irispe reports.

00:32Now that President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has certified the postponement of BARM parliamentary elections to October as an urgent bill,

00:41the Commission on Elections said it's all set to abide if the bill is enacted into law.

00:47And even now, the printing of the ballots for the parliamentary elections has been pushed back.

00:52We have ordered the Printing Committee to set aside the printing when it comes to the Bangsamoro parliamentary elections

01:00because the printing of the Bangsamoro national and local elections will continue.

01:05That's why in the parliamentary elections, they need to set aside first because we can do that at the end.

01:10COMELEC also explained that if the postponement proceeds,

01:13they might have to change the list of candidates for the parliamentary district representatives.

01:19Because it is possible, the seven districts supposedly allocated for Sulu could be designated or reassigned to other cities in the BARM.

01:27This will allow the region to have 80 parliamentary district representatives, which is stated in the Bangsamoro Organic Law.

01:34It depends on whether there will be a Parliament Act or the Act of Parliament

01:41that will re-apportion the parliamentary districts through the reason that the seven should be distributed

01:51that were originally supposed to be in Sulu.

01:56The Election Code, the Administrative Code, the Local Government Code should be amended

02:01and they need to pass a law that will distribute the seven.

02:05In case this process of redistricting proceeds,

02:08the COMELEC must conduct another filing of certificates of candidacies in June

02:13and on July and August, it is the start of the printing of the ballots.

02:17In terms of funding, if the law states this postponement will result in special elections,

02:23for which the COMELEC may ask for an additional 2.5 billion pesos.

02:27But if this is represented as a continuation of the national and local elections,

02:32the PAWL body may only have to fund the printing of the ballots.

02:35In case there will be a separate Bangsamoro parliamentary election,

02:40we came up only with 2.5 billion pesos that we ask for an additional budget in our government.

02:50From People's Television Network, Luisa Erispe, for Balitang Pambansa.

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