MANILA, Philippines — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino 'Koko' Pimentel on Monday asked the country's poll body to reconsider its 'wish list' for the 2025 automated elections, describing some of the items in the 'shopping list' as 'wasteful spending of taxpayers' money.' Pimentel warned the Commission on Elections (Comelec) against 'excessive and unnecessary expenses.' 'It will only increase the elections' price tag which, given our tight fiscal situation, we cannot afford. Let's avoid unnecessary expenditures and make do with what we have to save on cost,' he said in a statement, even stressing that the constitutional body 'reconsider its ‘shopping list' for the 2025 midterm elections on account of our growing budget deficit, tremendous debt burden, and high inflation.

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