{"id":24960,"date":"2014-09-05T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24960"},"modified":"2014-09-05T23:09:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:09:49","slug":"comelec-eyes-early-campaign-for-2016-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/05\/comelec-eyes-early-campaign-for-2016-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec eyes early campaign for 2016 polls"},"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 \u00a0&#8211; To give the candidates more time for exposure, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is planning to allow early campaigning in the 2016 polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thinking of starting the election campaign as early as October next year, when candidates file their certificates of candidacy,\u201d Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. told reporters yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was made following the Supreme Court&#8217;s (SC&#8217;s) declaration of a Comelec resolution limiting the airtime for political propaganda as unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat ruling will benefit the rich candidates to the prejudice of poor aspirants. We will continue to ensure a level playing field,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have to come up with a new resolution on allowable radio and television time for candidates and their political advertisements. We will have to follow the guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court in the ruling,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u00a0&#8211; To give the candidates more time for exposure, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is planning to allow early &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[7707,3716],"class_list":["post-24960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-campaign-period","tag-comelec","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960","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=24960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}