Comelec chief assures businessmen of honest and peaceful polls

The Manila Times

Comelec chief assures businessmen of honest and peaceful polls  The Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) general membership meeting in Taguig on April 2, 2025 hosts  Commission on Election Chairman George Erwin M. Garcia who talks about ensuring honest, orderly, and peaceful elections.  Video by Adelfa Celestino  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net     Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #TMTNews #Philippines #Election2025

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00:00If we add one more layer to our current system, we will need a law.

00:08Number one, number two, we need a budget.

00:10Because the teachers won't be able to agree until tomorrow

00:14that they will be counted after we add a budget.

00:17Of course, if we add a budget for early voting,

00:20therefore, we won't be able to add the Secretary of the Department and the Legislative Impact.

00:25I have already deducted almost P14 billion from our budget.

00:30So again, it will require a law so that the law will now prescribe for additional budget for our teachers.

00:37It would be better if the best way to countercheck the machine is to manually count the ballots.

00:44But with our machine now, we can manually count already the ballots because we will show the ballots immediately.

00:51We can't lie to the machine because if we count the ballots, we will show the ballots immediately.

00:58But again, we should open our minds to this kind of suggestions.

01:03Because the suggestions are well-meaning.

01:05However, the hands of the government are tied.

01:08Because we are just moving based on the law.

01:11And yet, it's just really the budget and the absence of the law.

01:15That's why I said earlier, we have different interpretations.

01:18My interpretation is that they are the IT experts.

01:23And therefore, we have different interpretations.

01:26But one thing we want is transparency.

01:28And because of the transparency in Asia,

01:30maybe no one will oppose that our election should be transparent.

01:35And our fellow countrymen should know how to count the ballots.

01:39I hope that our employees,

01:41because there are so many, 1,200 members of the Management Association of the Philippines,

01:46our employees should be allowed to vote.

01:49They should be able to choose correctly.

01:50We are not dictating who they will vote for.

01:53And I hope that we can help our voters' education program.

01:58In all our small way, we can help because the public cannot do it alone.

02:04The issue of voters' education is the issue of everyone.

02:08That's why we are asking for help.

02:10That's why I'm here.

02:11Going into the lions den.

02:14But so be it.

02:15Even the lion can perhaps forgive.

02:17What's important is that this is always a friendly exchange of ideas.

02:22That's how it should be.

02:23The public always welcomes suggestion, opposition, and even violent reactions.

02:29That's what we are saying.

02:32What is our answer to the lack of law?

02:34In other words, I really don't have a law.

02:37I'm just proposing.

02:39Because if there is one, I hope that from 2010 onwards, there will be a law.

02:44If there is one, even if I don't implement it,

02:47we will always be the first to implement and follow the law.

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