The majority voted yes to the Central Negros Electric Cooperative and Primelectric Holdings Inc. joint venture agreement in the first two days of the JVA plebiscite held Saturday and Sunday, June 24 and 25.
There was a 27,741 turnout of CENECO member-consumer voters and 21,674 or 78 percent voted yes to the JVA while 6,067 or 22 percent voted no, the Overall Plebiscite Committee chaired by Eduardo Padios reported Sunday night.
CENECO has 192,188 eligible voters.
There are four more plebiscite voting dates set on July 1 and 2 and July 8 and 9.
Judge Maria Lina Gonzaga of the Bacolod Regional Trial Court Branch 42 on Thursday denied the petition for a temporary restraining order on the JVA filed by Pepito Pico, Rommel Pido and Aaron Sorbito as representatives of the Negros Consumers Watch and Convenors of CENECO Anti JVA Coalition.
She set the hearing for their application for the issuance of a writ of preliminary injunction on June 29.
Joaquin Malacad, a CENECO member consumer, also filed a complaint seeking a nullification of the JVA before the Bacolod City Regional Trial Court on Thursday.*
