Solutions to the power crisis in Mindanao will be discussed in President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III’s first State of the Nation Address (SoNA) on Monday, the Chief Executive said.

Aquino in an interview Monday said all questions on the Mindanao' power crisis will be answered in his SoNA.

"Can we wait for the SoNA to reveal all the details? It will answer all of the questions that you are raising," Aquino said.

Last February, the Department of Energy (DoE) formally recommended to then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo the declaration of a power crisis in the main southern island to address the shortage. Consumers in the Mindanao grid have been suffering from horrendous eight-hour blackouts since last year because of the power shortage.

Aquino has high hopes that a "significant investor confidence would pave the way for their willingness to undertake the major infrastructure projects and the purchase of needed equipment such as of the military through innovative schemes."

Aquino maintained that there is a power crisis in Mindanao but there is no such development in Luzon and Visayas.

"There's crisis in Mindanao. Visayas should have a surplus by the end of this year. Luzon should not have a crisis," Aquino said, explaining that one would only have to improve the transmission of electricity coming from the northern provinces "plus perhaps a plant in the National Capital Region" to improve the power supply.

In his SoNA, Aquino may also tackle the water supply shortage in Metro Manila.

Although he stressed that there is no crisis in terms of water supply for Metro Manila according to official reports, Aquino said the government is not taking any chances.

Herminio Coloma, a member of the Presidential Communications Group, in a radio interview on Tuesday said declaring a water crisis will only be a last resort for the Palace to avoid inducing panic among residents.

Meanwhile, the House of Representatives has anticipated that the delivery of President Aquino's first SoNA will be peaceful on July 26.

But former National Security Council (NSC) adviser and Paranaque City Rep. Roilo Golez clarified that the government still needs to deploy 10,000 police personnel to ensure security next Monday.

"I don't perceive any threat. It is going to be peaceful," Golez said, explaining that the Philippine National Police (PNP) needs to prepare tight security arrangements to ensure the safety of rallyists.

"That's regular. We do that every year for crowd control and security around Batasan Complex," he said in an interview after critics of Aquino administration complained of overkill in SoNA preparations.

Also in the House of Representatives, winning party-list groups whose proclamation has been delayed have supported the Commission on Elections (Comelec) ruling allowing Jose Miguel "Mikey" Arroyo, a son of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, to take his party-list seat.

The Comelec en banc junked the disqualification case against the younger Arroyo which sought to stop him from representing party list group Ang Galing Pinoy, which takes up the concerns of security guards, and taxi and jeepney drivers in Congress.

The Comelec said that the Supreme Court had earlier ruled that a party list group does not have to be fully constituted by marginalized persons to be considered as a legitimate party list group.

A legitimate party list should merely have "majority of its membership as belonging to the marginalized," according to the Supreme Court jurisprudence.

1-Utak party list nominee Vigor Mendoza, whose group had earlier been subject to a disqualification case, cited the Supreme Court ruling which said that nominees of a party list group do not have to be marginalized themselves as long as they advocate the concerns of the marginalized sector that they represent.

Arnel Ty, first nominee of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers Association (LPGMA) party, said the Comelec should also decide on pending disqualification cases against eight remaining party list groups so they could already be proclaimed and allowed to field their nominees for seats in the 15th Congress.

"The basis of the disqualification cases against the party lists who have yet to be proclaimed is the allegation that we are not marginalized, but this issue should have been raised when we were applying to be accredited," Ty said.

Bayan Muna representative Teddy Casino, however, said his party will appeal the Comelec decision before the Supreme Court. (With reports by Rio Rose Ribaya and David Cagahastian)