{"id":181756,"date":"2018-09-16T03:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T07:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=181756"},"modified":"2018-09-16T03:30:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T07:30:34","slug":"no-law-vs-premature-campaigning-comelec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/16\/no-law-vs-premature-campaigning-comelec\/","title":{"rendered":"No law vs. premature campaigning: Comelec"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_177336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177336\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-177336\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe Comelec does not make the law, but we\u2019ve been helping legislation get passed to address this.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=21560267\">File Photo By Elmer B. Domingo &#8211; Own work\/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has reiterated that they cannot stop \u201caspiring candidates\u201d from promoting themselves ahead of the May 2019 midterm polls as no law prohibits premature campaigning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Comelec does not make the law, but we\u2019ve been helping legislation get passed to address this,\u201d Jimenez said on his Twitter account, @jabjimenez, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Comelec has never been silent about this loophole in the law, since at least 2013,\u201d Jimenez added.<\/p>\n<p>His statement came amid the reaction of netizens questioning the poll body\u2019s supposed lack of action against possible candidates in the forthcoming polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are actively supporting the bills that will help solve this problem,\u201d Jimenez said.<\/p>\n<p>Under Republic Act No. 9369, \u201cany person who files his certificate of candidacy within (the period for filing) shall only be considered as a candidate at the start of the campaign period for which he filed his certificate of candidacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also states that \u201cunlawful acts or omissions applicable to a candidate shall take effect only upon the start of the aforesaid campaign period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pending bills filed by senators Leila de Lima and Richard Gordon seek to prohibit any form of premature campaigning for any prospective candidate ahead of an electoral exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has reiterated that they cannot stop \u201caspiring candidates\u201d from promoting themselves ahead of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":177336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}