 Turnout results in other dioceses were also not good, he said.He promised, however, that the Church would not be disheartened and cited the strong support of people in such dioceses as Calbayog City.In his blog of July 4, 2016, direct democracy advocate Jojo Soria de Veyra, a member of ePIRMA, confessed that after the initiative's launch "the signature gathering was mostly left to certain parishes of the more organized Catholic Church, the primary backing of the Cebu Coalition.