{"id":202741,"date":"2019-02-18T04:36:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T09:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=202741"},"modified":"2019-02-18T04:36:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T09:36:59","slug":"comelec-admits-hands-tied-on-pre-campaign-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/02\/18\/comelec-admits-hands-tied-on-pre-campaign-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec admits hands tied on pre-campaign ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_202743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202743\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/21752190_1791969484197047_2869311960502228163_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-202743\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/21752190_1791969484197047_2869311960502228163_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/21752190_1791969484197047_2869311960502228163_n-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/21752190_1791969484197047_2869311960502228163_n-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/21752190_1791969484197047_2869311960502228163_n-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-202743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Dir. Jimenez says during the COMELEC Media Briefing on 2017 Brgy &amp; SK Elections Gun Ban (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PTVph\/photos\/bc.AbrHpHECz2n140CqSDRcQuqwhlyCSbUijItTf7CpxB5JSFqgqSgO67vTN6R8Wg-HEAxV9rjWl9XsSbWQVzMJT8PHinY3iKDH0840AI-Y402KcTPSFyfYwDTpXgto9HmWKOSFexgMcpFMAURX1XvJ5yFP\/1791969484197047\/?type=1&amp;opaqueCursor=AbrUf6RdAUVCMszfsF3wIfUa1cvUp7lcgHfzhBZDrRxdzZd63OVLqPb5J3spyIsvRFo0T0Fs7ZqVW6cXh6aCBWsc86fHhJAPoQl19_vWcWWkOQTvJDlcU0jQnpBOt3cQ_B5mpA_YkJR6sZ9lqqDxm28bF_S41FDcKcobJM2VHmQfQ67KWVvUf_d633mmZAVNG2FKAPOXWb_3f2ZXO0w7KuG1oZ9pEb4nLqcj_PBz02CQJv6l9XA8ObvF-9x8Rk9WDmJ23IWLDBhzaaKCb4aDgzWa9y9pSBhMc7nKZJQooJptSHDM9Pmx4wUewsnmBsZ8uTMqs8YGoH4A_1F6EGvZhbI_WNDDVlZqQk1IncdFOFrmkNM1bc0UcwCrP6RJF4KuVETp1tGqMAToVcIA_Qnils0PI89-1F587hBf1hvYsm-bicQjyxUSo8m_5ySDCg9qi58oVgCFFQjgPt3CEus-P0avu3p1bCuGeBiiFIGjZ1sceX4Y6EEicrpLZRULIj3qPbZjoi2VLP3uJGv-AXzxIZ_m&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PTVph\/\">PTV\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday said it cannot control the spending on premature campaign advertisements of poll candidates prior to the start of the campaign period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, we cannot do anything about it,\u201d Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez said the poll body only looks after the spending of candidates during the campaign period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll these happened before the campaign period. This is premature campaigning,\u201d the poll body official said. \u201cThe Comelec only checks (expenses) during the campaign period. This is what we have been pointing as a loophole in the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a report by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), the pre-campaign ad spending of some 18 senatorial candidates on TV, radio, print, and outdoor have already reached PHP2.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the spending covers the period between January 2018 to January 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday said it cannot control the spending on premature campaign advertisements of poll &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":202743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202741","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}