00:00 The group of signatures was alone in listening to the Senate regarding the issues for the People's Initiative on the Charter Change.
00:09 This is what Louisa Erizpe wrote.
00:11 Instead of flowery words for Valentine's Day, senators held a sermon on the signatures for the People's Initiative for CHA-CHA.
00:23 The group of signatures was the first to be denied by the Senate, which is not a legitimate group because their registration to the Security and Exchange Commission has been long overdue.
00:34 Their certificate of registration has been revoked since February 10, 2004.
00:38 No corporation, no paper, no receipt. What is this?
00:42 The group also held a sermon because of their refusal to reveal the names of those who donated money for their signature gathering.
00:50 The group also denied that their donors were afraid so they returned the money.
00:56 Noel Oñate, the convener of PIRMANA, was the one who answered the 55 million pesos paid for by TV ads.
01:03 But the senators said that the donors should still be exposed because they were not safe from the donor's tax from the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
01:12 Why are they concerned about their security? What is their threat to their security?
01:19 Donors should reveal themselves unless the funder is different, unless the signature is different.
01:27 I would also like to offer the Senate's protection through an executive session perhaps or even a witness protection possibility.
01:39 We have done this before for whistleblowers and such and we are perfectly happy to do the same for your donors.
01:45 Next is one of the senators, one of the supporters of the signature campaign, Attorney Anthony Abad.
01:52 He is also the one who put his name on the forms submitted to the Comelec.
01:56 But Abad said that even he didn't know about the promise of the exchange of signatures.
02:02 He also didn't know that it was written on the paper that the two members of Congress should vote for one.
02:09 His name is Ania that was put on the document because the list of supporters of the P.I. is in alphabetical order.
02:16 Abad just said sorry, sorry to the public and sorry to the lawmakers.
02:23 You're just thinking about the ideal situation. That situation is obtaining on the ground.
02:30 These people are now looking for a place to claim the card that they were promised. So, they said, "Attorney Abad is the one who put his name here.
02:39 Let's find Attorney Abad. Let's find him and claim this card. So, what do you have to say to these people?
02:48 Sorry.
02:49 Huh?
02:50 Sorry.
02:51 Thank you. Thank you and you will apologize.
02:53 Is that all? There are many advocates but none of them answered the question, what is the purpose of the proposal to vote jointly?
03:04 We heard where the promise of the exchange of signatures came from and why the DSWD is teaching the ACAP program.
03:13 But the agency did not directly answer this.
03:16 It came out from the hearing that even though the ACAP program is not yet IRR, it already has a budget.
03:22 Senator Bato de la Rosa and Senator Aimee Marcos are very angry about this.
03:27 In the Senate, I handle the DSWD budget but like the Comilex mysterious addition of 12 billion, this 26.7 billion in the budget of the DSWD is alien to me.
03:41 Where did this budget come from? Our budgeting process is already reversed.
03:46 The Congress will decide what project you will implement.
03:52 You are not the one who is requesting the Congress to fund a project, a program to fund.
03:58 Senator Bato asked for the guidelines of the Comilex in the process of returning the signature,
04:03 which was promised by the commission that they will issue to the local Comilex offices.
04:08 Luisa Erispe for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
