Technology provider Smartmatic on Thursday questioned its disqualification from all procurements of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), saying that the basis for such were false and non-existent.
Technology provider Smartmatic on Thursday questioned its disqualification from all procurements of the Commission on Elections , saying that the basis for such were false and non-existent. This after the Comelec en banc recently decided to bar Smartmatic due to the bribery allegations against former Comelec chairperson Juan Andres “Andy” Bautista “in exchange for awarding a contract for election machines to Smartmatic Corp.
“Maybe the commission knows something which they also know in fact during the hearing of the case, nandyan ang issue na yon bakit hindi nila mismo kinounter eh part ‘yun ng kabuuan ng disqualification e. Bakit hindi nila kinounter ?” he added.Garcia noted that Smartmatic was aware of the allegations against Bautista.“The point really is aware ang lahat, aware ang respondent na nag-eexist ‘yung allegation about something which happened abroad.
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