00:00Unlike the past elections,
00:03Comelec is already anticipating the incidents of vote buying in 2025.
00:09And instead of payment platforms,
00:11it is more personal that it will be possible to get money.
00:15Maki Polido was right.
00:19The purchase of votes is like the age of election in the country
00:23and it will not be different from the upcoming 2025 elections.
00:27What we expect from the upcoming elections
00:29is that the purchasing of votes will increase.
00:31Payment platforms are now used to purchase votes.
00:34But Garcia thinks that in the 2025 elections,
00:37it will be more personal to get money.
00:39Vote buyers already know that they are being monitored by the payment platform
00:44that will immediately report to Comelec.
00:46If you send more than 20 people in one day,
00:50in one transaction,
00:51we will pressure you to engage in vote buying.
00:54According to OCTA Research,
00:56most Filipinos do not sell votes.
00:59But only the poor voters are monitored by politicians.
01:04There are many types of vote buying,
01:05it can be in cash or in-kind.
01:07And it is limited to the last days before the elections,
01:10according to political analyst Ranjit Rai.
01:13Instead of thinking long term,
01:15and thinking of big things like democracy,
01:18citizenship and leadership,
01:20they look at the short term.
01:22It's a chance for us to eat.
01:24More often than not, the whole family buys votes.
01:27It's limited to the local level,
01:29or for the positions of the councilor, mayor, governor or congressman.
01:34There's a package given to the family to vote or not to vote.
01:37Certain communities and barangays that are not favorable,
01:41local politicians will try to either prevent them from voting,
01:44or encourage them to vote.
01:46Comelec said that vote buying weakens the integrity of the election.
01:50That's why the Memorandum of Agreement was passed between Comelec and NBI
01:54to ensure that vote buying is not the only thing that violates the election rules.
01:59I will not tell you what action we will take
02:03because they will know.
02:05But we already have a plan.
02:07For GMA Integrated News, Macky Pulido, for 24 Hours.
02:20For GMA Integrated News, Macky Pulido, for 24 Hours.
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