Comelec disqualifies candidate due to alleged vote-buying incident

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00:00The camera never lies and for sitting General Luna Mayor and wannabe Congressman Matt Irwin Florido,

00:06he has a unique and unenviable distinction among all candidates seeking to win in the 2025 meeting polls.

00:14The first to be disqualified by the poll body for transgressing its most sacred pre-election day law, vote buying.

00:21Our Luisa Erispe fills us in with more details on Florido being caught in a flagrante deletto in this report.

00:31The Commission on Elections First Division has officially disqualified a candidate for alleged vote buying this 2025 midterm elections.

00:41Based on the resolution, the candidate is Matt Irwin Florido, an incumbent mayor from General Luna and a congressional candidate in Quezon Province.

00:50Florido is the first candidate who was disqualified after being caught in the act distributing money amounting to 2,000 pesos.

00:59Napatunayan ng public division na talagang may sufficient basis na i-disqualify ang naturang na kandidato for violating yung ating omnibus election code,

01:09ang ating existing resolution sa isyo ng pamimili ng boto.

01:13Hindi lamang nagpakain kung hindi namigay ng tigay isang libong piso.

01:16Though the disqualification is still on division level, Komalik said this is a proof that they will be resolving disqualification cases before the election day.

01:26And those with substantial evidence may not be proclaimed even if they win as long as it's tagged with vote buying.

01:33Meanwhile, the main office of the poll body received several disqualification cases today with regards to vote buying.

01:40First is against a congressional candidate from Aklan who allegedly held a payout.

01:46Payout kasi talaga yung sabi.

01:49So yung nagtaka lang din naman kami bakit nagkandak ng payout, which is sa bahay ng staff niya with two DSWD.

01:57Another petition is against a whole slate in Masbate City, which allegedly used emergency text alerts to announce their candidacies.

02:06Aside from today's petition, the Komalik earlier released a show cause order against these candidates for the same incident.

02:13Pinalabas nila doon sa warning, no?

02:16Sa warning na instead of emergency, ang nakalagay doon ay yung candidacy.

02:23And lastly, a disqualification case was also filed against another congressional candidate from Malabon City

02:31who was believed to have distributed brown bags with bread and money inside.

02:36They gave to the respective participant a brown bag containing two pieces of 100 peso bill and a bread.

02:49So that will constitute a violation of the provision of the omnibus election code.

02:55So in this petition, we seek for a declaration that they committed an offense and together with that is a disqualification.

03:04As of now, such candidates have yet to comment on the petitions.

03:08But for Chairman George Irwin Garcia, he acknowledged that petitions will continue pouring into their office until Election Day on May 12.

03:16Mas nadami pa po yan. Habang papalapit na eleksyon, madami nagbab-violate.

03:21Habang papalapit na eleksyon, madami makukulit.

03:23Habang papalapit ang eleksyon, mas lalong madami pong nagkukummit ng vote-buying at paglabag sa ating mga patakaran.

03:31And therefore, asahan nyo, hindi lang madodoble, matitriple or quadruple times pa ang mga mapapalapit na disqualification sa atin.

03:38The poll body then calls on candidates to play fairly, especially in light of a party list nominee who was recently shot to death in Sampaloc, Manila.

03:46The party list is now offering a 1 million peso reward for anyone who has evidence linking the suspect to the killing.

03:53We are offering a reward. We can raise 1 million if you keep us with evidence and give it to the government and the law enforcement in charge of the investigation.

04:12Kamala condemns the incident.

04:13Hindi kinakailangan bala. Ang ating pinapanayig dito sa demokrasya dapat balota.

04:22So ako po eh naduduwagan sa mga taong gumagamit ng karahasan para lamang makuha nila ang silpatya o ang atensyon ng sambayanan.

04:34Irespeto sana natin ang buhay. Hindi po dapat may nagbubwis ng buhay ng kawalang kapararakan sa isang halalad.

04:42The Philippine National Police has yet to declare the incident as an act of election-related violence.

04:48From People's Television Network, Manila, Luisa Erispe, Balitang Pambansa.

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