00:00The Commission on Elections ordered the printing of balotas for the 2025 election in January 2025.
00:08The Commission promised that their schedule will not be affected for the preparation of the election.
00:14Louisa Elizpiz is back in the center of the news.
00:19As of this December, the Commission on Elections ordered the printing of balotas for the January 2025 election.
00:28This was explained by COMELEC Chairman George Erwin Garcia.
00:31This is because COMELEC is yet to resolve the disqualification cases for the candidates.
00:40Even if it is a petition for the nuisance candidate in a local position, they are only 80 percent done.
00:47That's why they will ensure that the list of candidates is clean before putting it in the ballot box,
00:53to avoid stray votes or the voting of voters who are not candidates.
00:59This is the statement of COMELEC Chairman George Erwin Garcia.
01:02That's why we aided January 6 to resolve the cases.
01:07We aided the cases because the respondents will say that they aided the cases because they want to print balotas immediately.
01:17So we made the final decision on January 6 at all costs.
01:22Even if they will print balotas in January, their schedule will not be affected for the preparation of the election.
01:32But they will not extend the deadline to January 6.
01:36Meanwhile, COMELEC is cleaning the list of candidates.
01:40Just yesterday, the first division of COMELEC issued a decision to cancel the certificate of candidacy of incumbent Mayor Marci Todoro
01:49for the congressman in the first district of Marikina.
01:53The decision was revoked because Todoro's statement was not correct, not to his residency, but to his COC.
02:00Garcia explained that the address of the candidate is different from the original address.
02:07Todoro moved from the first district in April to the second district and he returned to the first district in August.
02:16That's why he's not allowed to be a congressman.
02:21He can appeal to COMELEC and the bank, but for Chairman Garcia, he will be inhibited from the case because he became his client as a lawyer,
02:33Senator Coco Pimentel, who is a petitioner or one of the petitioners of the case.
02:38Here is the latest. We will return to you first Angelique.
02:41Okay. Thank you very much Luisa Erispe.
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