00:00President Bongbong Marcos has identified as urgent the plan to postpone the BARMM elections that should have been held at the same time as the midterm elections in May.
00:12According to the law, the president will be in charge of the seats in the current caretaker government of the region while the parliament is absent.
00:21Imagine that.
00:23The commission on elections did not start printing balotas for the first parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslimin Danau or BARMM.
00:36The midterm elections should have been held at the same time as May 12.
00:39But President Bongbong Marcos has identified as urgent the plan to postpone the BARMM elections.
00:45According to Palacio, the president believes that aside from the BARMM elections, the Bangsamoro Transitional Government will focus on improving its governance structure.
00:54If the Bangsamoro and parliamentary elections will be postponed, will we reopen the filing of the Certificates of Candidacy?
01:02Because if not, the list that we have is enough.
01:06After the second reading of the Senate, the Barmm elections will be held in October.
01:10According to the bill, the next elections will be held at the same time as the national and local elections.
01:15Aside from increasing security if not at the same time as the elections, the postponement of the BARMM elections was mentioned.
01:21They need to refocus the security forces in the BARMM area.
01:27Second, to give the BTA a sufficient time to reallocate the seven seats that should be in Sulu that were taken away by the Supreme Court decision.
01:40According to the bill, the BARMM elections will be held next year and the next BARMM elections will be held every three years.
01:48President Bongbong Marcos will be appointed to the Bangsamoro Transition Authority or BTA
01:53whose term is only until June 30 and it will be replaced by the barred BARMM Parliament.
01:58Before this, the BARMM elections should have been postponed in 2022 due to the COVID pandemic.
02:04That's why the term of the BTA that was appointed by former President Rodrigo Duterte was extended.
02:10According to Comelec, there are many things that need to be fixed in the parliamentary positions after the removal of Sulu from BARMM.
02:16One of the considered given by the parliamentary district to the seven seats that should be in Sulu is the SGA.
02:26So whether they have a province or not, in the meantime, they will be given a parliamentary district.
02:32If that happens, we need to change the BARMM ballot in the parliament about the SGA.
02:40For GMA Integrated News, Ivan Mayrina, for Tutok Tulfo, 24 hours.
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