00:00And in the upcoming news, the Comelec will temporarily suspend the printing of balotas for the 2025 national and local elections.
00:10The details of Louisa Erispe. Louisa.
00:13Diane, the Commission on Elections just announced that they are officially suspending the printing of balotas for the 2025 national and local elections.
00:26This is to violate the order of the Supreme Court to include the names of the five candidates who were previously declared as nuisance and disqualified candidates.
00:38These are Subair, Gintum, Mustafa, who is running as a senator, and there are four other names who are running for local positions.
00:48Because of the suspension of the printing of balotas, the Comelec said that they will first study if they need to create a new database for the candidates.
01:01Because every candidate who is printed with balotas has a serial number, they will do automated elections for the national and local elections.
01:10They will study if the serial number or database of each candidate will change.
01:16The Mac Elections schedule will not be adjusted because of the suspension. It should be done on Saturday.
01:24All candidates who were previously printed with balotas, it is possible that they will be printed again.
01:31The Commission on Elections said that the public should not be worried. There will be a slight delay in the printing of balotas
01:40and in the process of preparing for the elections. But the public should not panic because they are planning and they believe that the election will be fine.
01:54The Commission on Elections also said that they will issue a notice or a reminder to the Congress, including the Senate and the House of Representatives,
02:05as well as to those who will be elected because they expect to issue a new ballot phase.
02:12They will study when they will issue it, but they assure that they will not be delayed for a long time. That's all.
02:21Thank you very much for the update Louisa Erispe.
