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00:0090 days only, and it's already election 2025.
00:12Today, the campaign period for the Senator and the party list representative has already started.
00:18The Commission on Elections has also started the implementation of the OPLAD-BAKLA in the campaign material
00:23where the measure is not correct or in a prohibited place.
00:26The hot news will be brought to you by EJ Gomez.
00:31It's only 3 o'clock in the early morning,
00:33the local government members gathered in Quezon City Hall
00:37for the briefing of the official start of Operation BAKLAS.
00:42The program is far from removing the campaign material that was placed in prohibited places
00:47and the measure was too much for the Commission on Elections.
00:50Operation BAKLAS was conducted in all 6 districts of Quezon City.
00:55In District 1, the route was blocked from City Hall.
00:58Quezon Avenue, Fernando Paul Jr. Avenue, towards EDSA and back to City Hall,
01:03where the BAKLAS campaign materials were placed.
01:06Historically, District 1, District 4, and District 2 are the majority.
01:11So that's what we're aiming for, and District 5 also.
01:14That's why it's good that there are a lot of crenate groups
01:20that are now BAKLAS-ing the illegal campaign materials.
01:25Most of the BAKLAS are those who are attached to the electricity poles
01:29or not even attached to the lines or wires of the electricity.
01:33There are also those who are placed in public facilities
01:37such as street signs, traffic lights, and signal posts.
01:40It is strictly prohibited based on the oversight of the Commission on Elections.
01:44According to the Quezon City LGU,
01:46more than a thousand personnel were deployed today
01:49for the BAKLAS of the illegal campaign materials.
01:53There are too many.
01:54We will force everyone to remove all the illegal posters of the candidates.
01:58We have a lot of trucks to collect that.
02:01We will hide it here in Quezon City Hall.
02:04Later on, we will throw it away.
02:08As for our candidates, we need to abide by the Comelec advisory resolutions
02:15that they should be placed in common poster areas
02:18and legal areas and legal sizes of our campaign materials.
02:26If ever they are placed in illegal areas,
02:32the Quezon City government is tasked to remove them.
02:36In Manila, some of the campaign materials attached to the wires and posts were stolen from Comelec.
02:41Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia himself was the one in charge of the operation.
02:45Some of the materials used are plastic.
02:48We would like to send a very strong message to everyone.
02:51Let us please respect the environment
02:54and let us please observe the rules and regulations of the Commission on Elections.
02:59Comelec first avoided removing the campaign posters
03:02of those running for local positions because it is not yet their turn.
03:06The campaign period for local candidates will start on March 28.
03:10Comelec will write down the illegal candidates and partylists
03:13who used the campaign materials and will give them three days to remove them.
03:19As of today, we will start issuing notices to them to remove the campaign materials.
03:28Under our rules, they will have three days to remove election offense and disqualification.
03:34EJ Gomez reporting for GMA Integrated News.