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00:00Temporary restraining order from the Supreme Court was obtained by vlogger and senatorial aspirant Francis Leo Marcos.
00:11This is in accordance with his petition to stop the COMELEC from declaring him a nuisance candidate.
00:18The TRO also obtained from the Supreme Court the former Albay Governor Noel Rosal and the former Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortez,
00:26both of whom were cancelled by the COMELEC.
00:29These TROs, they enjoin or prevent the COMELEC from implementing the resolutions,
00:35considering the candidates are either disqualified or a nuisance candidate.
00:40So that means they have to be included in the ballot.
00:43The COMELEC said that they will follow the orders of the Supreme Court.
00:47They need two to three days to add Rosal and Marcos to the ballot.
00:53This week is very crucial because this week the COMELEC will start printing ballots again.
01:00Again, we are committed, we promise the COMELEC will always comply at this point with the Supreme Court directive.
01:10But according to the Supreme Court, there are other tricks such as petitions that they are listening to.
01:16Twenty-five petitions were filed in the national and local positions and twenty-two on the party list.
01:22Before the Supreme Court issued the TRO, the COMELEC showed the new ballot phase to the media.
01:28It includes a senatorial aspirant and eight local aspirants who were first added to the ballot after they obtained the TRO from the Supreme Court.
01:37In the list of senatorial aspirants, Chavit Singso withdrew from the race.
01:43Subair Gintom Mustafa was added.
01:47That's why some aspirants changed the number in the ballot.
01:51We included Ms. Mustafa.
01:53The first to be added were Olivar, Ong, Pacquiao, Pangilinan, Quirubin, Ibuloy, Ramos, Revillame, Rodriguez, Zahidula and Salvador.
02:05They did not move after that because we removed them because of the withdrawal of Ms. Singso.
02:12The COMELEC hopes that the ballot can be printed again tomorrow, but it is possible to do it on Friday.
02:18For each name that will be printed in the ballot, the aspirant's database must be changed,
02:24serialization of each ballot must be done, and more than 1,600 ballot phases must be made,
02:31a process that takes two to three days.
02:34The COMELEC hopes that they will not be able to meet their target of April 14 to finish printing 73 million ballots.
02:44Even if it is possible to produce 1.5 million ballots per day,
02:49they will insist that it will not be affected by the deployment and other uses in the election.
02:55There is no effect on the day of the election.
02:57The COMELEC should have distributed all the election paraphernalia to the entire Philippines two weeks before the election.
03:07Why? Because we have final testing and sealing one week before the election.
03:12According to the Supreme Court, they consider the effect of TROs on the printing of ballots.
03:19The court does consider the printing of the ballots, of course.
03:22But then it did remind the COMELEC in the case of Marquez,
03:27the case decided earlier that the COMELEC should also be aware that in disqualifying candidates,
03:35there is a big chance that these candidates are going to be bringing the issue before the Supreme Court
03:41and that the Supreme Court would need time to actually resolve their cases.
03:45For GMA Integrated News, I'm Sandra Aguinaldo, your witness.