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00:00 The Senate has already decided on the big difference between the budget of the Comelec
00:03 in preparation for the 2022 presidential election
00:06 and what they are asking for in preparation for the 2025 elections.
00:11 The Comelec's explanation in the speech of Danoting Cungco.
00:15 The Comelec is asking for a budget of 44.772 billion pesos for 2024.
00:25 But they told the Senate Committee on Finance Subcommittee that the DBM
00:29 allocated 17.432 billion pesos for their proposed budget.
00:36 They said that the budget they allocated for them is not enough for the preparation of the 2025 elections.
00:42 If they will not be restoring the 5.7 more or less billion pesos,
00:47 there will be, we will be find, we will find it hard to prepare for the national local election of 2025.
00:55 This is a problem because it is possible for two elections to happen in 2025,
01:00 the midterm elections in May and the Panibagong Barangay and SK elections in December.
01:05 They also said that the Comelec will be owned by more than 100,000 Panibagong vote counting machines.
01:11 We were hoping that we can lease new machines based on the new terms of reference that we
01:20 promulgated and we released some two months ago Madam Chair. And then of course we will have to
01:26 test, pilot test, including the testing ballots and such other collaterals of the preparatory.
01:35 The senators approved the big change in the Comelec's budget for preparing for the 2022
01:41 presidential election and they are asking for it now for preparing for the 2025 elections.
01:47 The Comelec explained that before, they used the machines that were used before.
01:52 In 2025, the Comelec said that they plan to make changes.
01:57 Do you plan to test that? Because there are still ongoing special elections, right?
02:03 Yes Madam Chair, that's the reason why we wanted to proceed with procurement by September
02:09 and have a procurement short of award by December so that we can award the contract by January or
02:17 February and we can have pilot testing, international certification, source code review and such other
02:23 tests to be conducted including the mock elections. So the whole year of 2024.
02:29 For GMA Integrated News, Danoting Cunco for 24 Hours.
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