Thursday, September 17, 2015

No report to back claims that China might sabotage PHL 2016 polls - AFP

From the Philippine News Agency (Sep 17): No report to back claims that China might sabotage PHL 2016 polls - AFP

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Thursday said it has no information regarding reports claiming that China will try to sabotage the 2016 national elections.

AFP spokesperson Col. Restituto Padilla said that this was the first time they had heard of such information.

"This is the first time that the AFP received information on the matter and after checking with our concerned staff offices, we found out there is no report in our files to substantiate this. Hence, we could not comment on an issue we know nothing about," he added.

In a House of Representatives hearing Wednesday, Commission on Election Commissioner Christian Robert Lim claimed that a fellow COMELEC official received an intelligence report that China might sabotage the 2016 national elections.

Lim said the Comelec en banc was informed of the alleged intelligence report and to avoid complications, the Comelec has decided to transfer the manufacturing of Precinct Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines from China to Taiwan.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=805167

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.