00:00 A former congressman wanted the Supreme Court to remove the visa from the contract awarded by Comelect to Miru Systems for the 2025 elections.
00:09 Miru said that it is still waiting for a copy of the petition and that it will be released when it is obtained.
00:15 Sandra Aguinaldo and Salima Refran were on the spot.
00:22 A former congressman wanted the Supreme Court to remove the visa from the 18 billion contract of the South Korean firm Miru Systems Company Ltd.
00:34 for the 2025 elections.
00:37 In her 50-page petition for certiorari, she also asked for a temporary restraining order and a writ of preliminary injunction to stop its implementation.
00:47 Under the contract, Comelect will rent the vote counting machines to Miru.
00:53 Miru will also supply other necessities for the automated elections.
00:58 We will be turned into a guinea pig in 2025 because the machines we will use are prototype, which is against the automation law.
01:07 Secondly, there are certain procedures that were not followed by the commission on elections.
01:11 In addition, the government will spend only 18 billion pesos for the elections.
01:17 I think this is a robbery in progress.
01:20 So the one who will be in the grave is not the election but the robbery.
01:24 Easily, we will be robbed of 10 billion pesos.
01:28 Comelect's spokesman, George Erwin Garcia, said that according to the law, the award of the contract to Miru Systems
01:36 and that the process in the law was followed.
01:39 He also has a problem with the TRO requested by Erice.
01:43 We may not be able to continue the automated elections if we are stopped in our work.
01:51 Garcia added to what Erice said about the prototype.
01:54 Miru's machines have new features that were added to the vote counting machine, but the voting process is still the same.
02:03 Comelect prescribed our wish lists and those who participated in the procurement, especially Miru, provided us with a sample.
02:12 We can do what you're saying, the wish lists, everything is there.
02:16 Erice compared the old election contracts with the contract that was overpriced and not correct.
02:25 It was said that the election was postponed for years because there are old machines that were used.
02:31 Now, the Supreme Court's decision came out that says Comelect disqualified Smartmatic from the bidding for the vote counting machine and other necessary things in the election.
02:45 Garcia said that they will file a motion for reconsideration in the Supreme Court.
02:51 Comelect and Smartmatic declared disqualified in 2023 because of the allegation that it was included in the Omanoy bribery against the former Comelect chairman Juan Andres Bautista in America.
03:03 Smartmatic denied it and said that it should not be the basis of disqualification.
03:09 Garcia said that the investigation of America is leading in the Omanoy bribery.
03:15 Last three weeks, the US Homeland Security and the US DOJ came here.
03:22 They mentioned things and information.
03:25 They asked for additional documents.
03:27 They talked to our three people here in Comelect.
03:31 We were guaranteed that something big will happen this year.
03:36 For GMA Integrated News, Sandra Aguinaldo and Salima Refran, we have learned 24 hours.
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