00:00 The Senate in Davao City believed that there is a significant amount of signatures for the People's Initiative that supports the Charter Change.
00:09 A resident also admitted that he was not the only one who signed.
00:15 RGL Relator of GMA Regional TV, Juan Mindanao.
00:23 Officials of the barangay in Davao City, the residents who were ordered to sign and the residents who signed the signature sheets for the People's Initiative,
00:33 faced the Senate Committee on Electoral Reforms.
00:38 But aside from the former allocation of money and assistance to the signatures,
00:43 some of the people who were ordered to sign also agreed to sign.
00:50 But you were ordered to forge it so that it can be done.
00:54 I did not forge it. I know that in the law, a person's name should be forged.
00:58 But that's what he told you.
01:00 That's what he told me.
01:02 You just forged it.
01:03 I just forged it.
01:05 Some residents admitted that they did not sign just once.
01:09 They wrote my name but I signed three times. I don't know what they are signing, sir.
01:17 According to the residents who signed, they agreed to sign because of the promised assistance through cash assistance up to 10,000 pesos,
01:27 IECs, TUPAD, scholarships or food packs.
01:31 They did not explain to them what they were signing.
01:35 DSWD and DOLE have already denied that there is an alternative assistance under their program, the signing of the People's Initiative.
01:44 According to some officials of the barangay who are facing the hearing,
01:48 some residents are asking for help to get their signatures back after learning that their signatures are about the People's Initiative.
01:57 Many people come to me. Many people surrender to me that they are being fooled.
02:05 They are being fooled and they want to redraw their signatures.
02:09 According to Comalec Region 11, the affidavit must be withdrawn if there is a signatory who wants to get their signatures back.
02:17 But the whole signature sheet, sir, we cannot return it until such time that we can return the affidavit, the certification, the unexplained one that we initiated to the proponent.
02:31 Why is it like that? It should be returned.
02:33 The system should be the same to withdraw. This is an affidavit, notarized, you will go to Comalec.
02:40 You are making it too hard for people.
02:43 House Majority Leader Manix de Lipe called for the Senate to stop its investigation of the People's Initiative.
02:50 Comalec even said that it suspended the acceptance of signatures.
02:55 They said that they will help to pass the resolution of both Houses 6 that supports the amendment of economic provisions in the Constitution.
03:04 This is also the position of some other congressmen.
03:07 They were not able to prove that there is any acceptance of any significance here in the People's Initiative.
03:14 We are called the "Happy Hours". So, I hope we will stop this. We have to focus on our BH number 6.
03:23 The GMA Integrated News is also trying to get the approval of the Senate on this.
03:29 For GMA Integrated News, I am Ori Jil Relato of GMA Regional TV 1 Mindanao, your witness.
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