{"id":23331,"date":"2014-08-23T18:05:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T10:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23331"},"modified":"2014-08-23T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T13:18:08","slug":"no-premature-campaigning-comelec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/23\/no-premature-campaigning-comelec\/","title":{"rendered":"No premature campaigning \u2013 COMELEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11998\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11998\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec-300x300.png\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec.png 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Amid the president\u2019s criticisms over premature campaigning of certain politicians, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) remained firm that there are no acts constituting premature campaigning.<\/p>\n<p>This is because there are no official candidates yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnically, under election law, nobody is campaigning because there are no candidates yet,\u201d Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said.<\/p>\n<p>The poll automation law indicates that \u201cany person who files his certificate of candidacy shall only be considered as a candidate at the start of the campaign period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Aquino was earlier reported to have lamented over certain acts of several politicians that he perceived to be campaigning ahead of the 2016 polls.<\/p>\n<p>The president encouraged the public to cast their votes wisely and choose the best president who will continue the reforms he started.<\/p>\n<p>He also called on the politicians to address the most pressing concerns of the country instead of focusing on campaigning as early as now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Amid the president\u2019s criticisms over premature campaigning of certain politicians, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) remained firm that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[3716,7508],"class_list":["post-23331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-comelec","tag-premature-campaigning","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23331","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=23331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}