00:00The Commission on Elections, or COMELEC, is ready to abide by the law enacted that was certified by President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.
00:08for the postponement of BARM parliamentary elections to October as an urgent bill.
00:14Even now, the printing of ballots for the parliamentary elections has been pushed back yet again.
00:20COMELEC explained that if the postponement proceeds,
00:23they might have to change the list of candidates for the parliamentary district representatives.
00:28Because of this, it is possible that the seven districts allocated for Sulu
00:33could not be designated or reassigned to other cities of BARM.
00:37This will allow the region to have 80 parliamentary district representatives,
00:41which is stated in the Bangsamoro Organic Law.
00:45In case this process of redistricting proceeds,
00:49the COMELEC must conduct another filing of certificates in June, July, and on August
00:54on the start of the printing of the ballots.
00:57We ordered the Printing Committee to set aside the printing
01:02if we are talking about the Bangsamoro parliamentary elections.
01:05Because the printing of the Bangsamoro national and local elections will continue.
01:10But for the parliamentary elections, they need to be set aside first
01:12because we can do that at the end.
01:15That depends on whether the Parliament Act or the Act of Parliament
01:22will re-apportion the parliamentary districts
01:26because they need to distribute the seven districts
01:32that were originally allocated for Sulu.
01:36They need to amend the Election Code, the Administrative Code, the Local Government Code,
01:42and they need to pass a law that will distribute the seven districts.
