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Setting an example
HE Commission on Elections has ordered ing campaign materials are
indeed removed' oa if tltby
administration candidates for senator to
take down the oversize campaign materials #: #6g|$j|!"|tfl:qffi,;
featuring PDP-Laban party bets in an electronic are imposed. Finally, it must
billboard on a condominium building along EDSA also publicize these actions
as an example to all others
or face charges for violating election laws. who violate campaign laws.
Of courseo it isn't only the
In a series of Twitter posts, spokesman James Jimenez Comelec that needs to set an
Comelec Commissioner Ro- also tweeted photos of Go's example.
wena Guanzon said the poll campaign posiers-aloug Que- Candidates who aspire
body issued the waming in zon Avenue. to become lawmakers must
of
response to online criticism "These posters are of the first show they know how to
the biilboar& feahring Ma- right size, but the locatiou is resBect the law,
guindanao Rep. Dong Man- wiong," Jimenez tweeted, Ii isn't enough for these
sudadatu, fomer PhiliBBinc The statemente eiting eam- eandidates to e[aim that the
National Poliee ehicf Rbhald paien violationc by the ad. illegal eampaign materials
dela Roca, formcr speeial as. inin-ictration eandi-dates are werb out u-u bv unnamed
sistant to the oreeident Chric- weleome. eomine from a ooll supBoiters'without their
topher Go, Sbnator Aquilino ageney that ic oft-en Bereefved knowledge or approval, Nor
Pimentel III and former presi- as beinc too lenient. oartieu- is it enough that they issue
dential adviser for political larlv wf,en it comes i<i aoolv- a public -statement plead-
affairs Francis Tolentino, all ing'the rules to the panty in ing with these follow-ers to
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senatorial bets of the niling pdiver.
PDP-Labanparty. But
"These oversize campaign
materials on electronic bill-
boards are prohibited," Guan-
zon said in her tweet, saying
that "by public demand, can-
didates Bong Go and Tolen-
tino please take down your
posteis now."
Two days ago, Comelec
take down the posters. What
good governance they must do is prove their
doesn't begin and end with sincerity and ability to fol-
Twitter posts, and calling low the rules bv havine their
out the candidates just isn't staff remove the otre.-ndtsg
enough. materials wherever theyrye
' If its warnings ate to be found and reported. A-!pr
taken seriously, the Cpr-nelec all, ifthey cannot follow the
needstoensurethatfollow-up rules, what gives them the
actions bre taken in a timely Slght to set them for every-
manner, and that the offend- body else?
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