Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman George Garcia stated Sunday the ballot physique will nonetheless ask Congress to allocate supplemental funds to extend the honoraria for lecturers who will serve throughout the 2023 barangay, and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE).
This was after Garcia introduced on Saturday that there will likely be no enhance within the trainer’s honoraria because the ballot physique was not granted an extra funds for the aim.
“Talagang ipupursige ng Commission on Elections na mabigyan sila ng dagdag na honoraria. ‘Yan po ay ating ipakikiusap sa Kongreso kapag tayo nakiusap sa kanila para supplemental budget para sa barangay at SK elections,” he said on Super Radyo dzBB interview.
(Comelec will really push for the additional honoraria. We will ask from Congress a supplemental budget for the barangay and SK elections.)
“‘Yan ang ating panawagan at sana tayo’y mapakinggan sa bagay na ‘yan [para sa] kapakanan ng ating guro. Mas mahirap ang trabaho kapag Barangay at SK elections dahil hindi automated. Mano-manong binibilang ng ating guro ang mga balota,” he added.
(That is our name and I hope we will likely be heard for the sake of our lecturers. The work is tougher throughout BSKE as a result of it’s not automated. Our lecturers manually rely the ballots.)
According to Garcia, Electoral Board chairpersons will obtain P6,000; P5,000 for the Electoral Board members; and P4,000 for precinct employees.
In 2022, the Comelec was given P8.4 billion for the postponed December 2022 polls.
Since it was rescheduled to 2023, the Comelec requested Congress for an extra funds of P10 billion, on prime of the P8.4 billion, for the BSKE.
However, Comelec spokesperson Rex Laudiangco stated Congress solely allotted P2.7 billion underneath this yr’s nationwide funds. Garcia stated this was solely sufficient to pay for the unique honoraria fee of the lecturers. —LBG, GMA Integrated News
