00:00 Only a small percentage of consolidated operators
00:03 have experienced difficulties in paying for modernized units.
00:07 That's what officials said
00:09 among the early days of some transport groups
00:13 that formed or joined the cooperative.
00:16 Less than 10% of the almost 170 cooperatives and corporations
00:22 that have loans in the land bank are having a hard time paying.
00:26 24% in the development bank.
00:29 Clearly, that's not a big number.
00:32 It's normal to have problems in running it.
00:35 The Manibela Group said earlier
00:38 that 1,000 consolidated jeepneys
00:41 are not able to travel after being paid.
00:44 But it's just birth pains,
00:47 said LTFRB Chairman Tiofe Lugwadis.
00:50 These are birth pains of a cooperative
00:54 and birth pains of a government program.
00:59 We can still revive these corporations.
01:01 We are now implementing amendments to the program
01:06 to make these cooperatives competitive in the market.
01:10 [Chanting]
01:13 Although the Manibela Group and Pistorne
01:17 are claiming that they will extend the franchise consolidation deadline until April 30,
01:21 they are not asking for it,
01:24 but they are still allowed to travel
01:26 when they are not being forced to consolidate.
01:29 This is the result of a series of movements.
01:35 Although we are in a bad position,
01:36 the modernization program really stopped.
01:43 We are asking for the LTFRB and the DOTR to study this
01:50 and the administration itself.
01:52 Pistorne is only open to the PUV modernization program
01:56 if they are allowed to maintain their cooperative.
02:01 We are saying that the operators and the franchise
02:06 are individual owners.
02:09 The PASANG-MASDA and the Liga ng Transportasyon at Operators
02:14 of the Philippines, or LTOF,
02:16 respect the extension of the consolidation deadline
02:19 that they have already imposed.
02:21 We are just waiting for the decision of the President of the Philippines,
02:25 if he will give space for those who have not been consolidated.
02:30 I am in favor of the second step of consolidation.
02:34 But there are already many who have followed.
02:38 So let's continue and rationalize.
02:41 If you don't want to, don't stay.
02:43 The Pistorne and Manibela Groups will not stop protesting
02:48 while still hoping that the Supreme Court will lower the order
02:53 against modernization.
02:55 [crowd shouting]
02:57 Kary Kator, CNN Philippines.
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