00:00The Commission on Elections has now recognized the Dominant Majority and Minority Party for the upcoming 2025 elections.
00:08Meanwhile, the written notices and show-cause order will be sent to the candidates who are also being targeted.
00:16This is Harley Balbuena for the Central News.
00:21The Commission on Elections has declared the Lakas Christian Muslim Democrats or Lakas CMD
00:28as the Dominant Majority Party for the 2025 midterm elections.
00:33The Nationalista Party is the Dominant Minority Party.
00:38According to Comelec Chairman George Garcia,
00:41the Dominant Majority and Dominant Minority Party will have priority in placing poll watchers in the polling stations
00:50and in the vote canvassing venue.
00:52They will also have their own servers and they will receive direct election returns from the presidents,
01:00like those received by Citizens Arms as well as NAMFREL and PPCRV.
01:06They are also entitled to copies or hard copies of election returns.
01:12The election of the two parties is based on the criteria set by Comelec Resolution No. 11119.
01:21This is based on the total of 10 parties that applied to become the Dominant Majority and Dominant Minority Party.
01:29History, or that's how long they've been in politics in the Philippines.
01:33Number 2, how many incumbents do they have?
01:36Number 3, how many run for each position, national and local?
01:41Number 4, how many women's participation?
01:45During the 2022 National Elections,
01:48CMDDIN was the first party to be declared as the Dominant Majority Party.
01:53Meanwhile, Comelec is expecting more campaign activities and campaign materials.
01:59The opening of the campaign period for local candidates in March 28 will be near.
02:06Comelec admitted that they are short of people and resources,
02:11so they cannot manually send out all the campaign posters that are placed in prohibited areas.
02:18Instead, they will send written notices at show-cause order,
02:23which are immediately followed by the candidates.
02:28We will just use the power of writing notices.
02:31If we remove all the posters, all the power lines, or all the waiting sheds,
02:41we will really waste our time in removing them.
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