10-day campaign period for brgy., SK bets begins today
The 10-day campaign period for the candidates of the synchronized barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on October 25 officially starts today.
Iloilo City Election Officer Joebert Arbis reiterated that candidates are allowed to spend only P3 per person during the campaign.
The Commission on Elections also reminded aspirants to post their posters and streamers in the designated common poster areas identified by the commission such as plazas, markets, barangay centers and the like.
“The posting of campaign materials in public places outside of the designated common poster areas such as streets, bridges, public structures or buildings, trees, electric posts or wires, schools, shrines, main thoroughfares and the like is prohibited,” Section 8 of the COMELEC Resolution No. 9043 states.
The COMELEC provided the sizes for the candidates’ campaign materials: for flyers, the size should be 8½x14 inches; for poster 2x3 feet and for streamers 3x8 feet.
Meanwhile, the prohibited acts during the campaign period:
- It is unlawful for any person to remove, destroy, obliterate or, in any manner, deface or tamper with, or prevent the distribution of any lawful election propaganda.
- It is unlawful for any candidate, group, organization, and/or coalition thereof, or any person to give or accept, free of charge, directly or indirectly, transportation, food and drinks, or anything of value during and within the five hours before and after a public meeting, or to give or contribute, directly or indirectly, money or things of value for such purpose.
- It is illegal for any person to hold dances, lotteries, cockfights, games, boxing, bingo, beauty contests, entertainments, or cinematographic, theatrical or other performances for the purpose of raising funds for an election campaign or for the support of any candidate from the commencement of the election period up to and including election day, or for any person or organization, whether civic or religious, directly or indirectly to solicit and/or accept from any candidate or from his campaign manager, agent or representative, or from any person acting in his behalf, any gift, food, transportation, contribution, or donation in cash or in kind during the same period.
- No candidate, his or her spouse or any relative within the second civil degree of consanguinity or affinity, or his campaign manager, agent or representative, shall, from the start of the campaign period up to election day, directly or indirectly, make any donation, contribution, gift in cash or in kind, or undertake or contribute to the construction or repair of roads, bridges, schoolhouses, puericulture centers, medical clinics and hospitals, churches or chapels, cement pavements, or any structure for public use or for the use of any religious or civic organization.*
