00:00After President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. certified as Urgent,
00:04the Commission on Elections decided to prepare
00:07for the 6th of May in the Legislative Assembly
00:09to pass the BARM Parliamentary Elections this year.
00:12Details in the national news of Luisa Erispe of PTV Manila.
00:18Now that President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. certified as Urgent Bill
00:23to pass the BARM Parliamentary Elections in October this year,
00:27the Commission on Elections is ready to pass this bill.
00:32Comelec said that they are not printing ballots for the Parliamentary Elections
00:40because of the legislation in the Senate.
00:42We ordered the Printing Committee to set aside the printing
00:47if we are talking about the Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections
00:50because the printing of the Bangsamoro National and Local Elections will continue.
00:55But for the Parliamentary Elections, they need to be set aside
00:58because we can do that at the end.
01:00Another reason why they are not printing parliamentary ballots
01:04is that they might change the list of candidates.
01:08It is possible that the 7 district representatives
01:11who will come from Sulu will be distributed to different provinces in BARM
01:16to form the 70 district representatives in the Bangsamoro Organic Law.
01:21It depends on the Parliament Act or the Act of Parliament
01:28that will re-apportion the parliamentary districts
01:33based on the reason that the 7 must be distributed
01:38that originally should be distributed in Sulu.
01:43The Election Code, Administrative Code, Local Government Code
01:48and they need to pass the law that will distribute the 7.
01:52Even if the distribution of the districts continues,
01:55in June, Komelek's target is to have a new COC filing in BARM
02:00and in July or August, the printing of the new ballots.
02:04As for the cost, Komelek said, it depends on the law that will be passed by the Congress.
02:10If these are special elections, they will need 2.5 billion pesos in additional funds.
02:16But if these are just for the national and local elections,
02:20Komelek will only print the ballots.
02:23If there will be a separate Bangsamoro parliamentary election,
02:28we came up only with 2.5 billion pesos.
02:31We are asking for an additional budget for our government.
02:38Komelek also said, it is only for the district representatives
02:41to change the list of candidates
02:44For the political party representatives and sectoral representatives,
02:48it is possible that there will be no change in the list of accredited and process of voting.
02:53From People's Television Network, Luisa Erispe, for Balitang Pambansa.
