{"id":50418,"date":"2015-05-27T16:11:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T08:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50418"},"modified":"2015-05-28T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T05:16:13","slug":"comelec-urges-civil-society-groups-to-join-fight-against-premature-campaigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/27\/comelec-urges-civil-society-groups-to-join-fight-against-premature-campaigning\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec urges civil society groups to join fight against premature campaigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50594\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_240592015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50594\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_240592015.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_240592015.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_240592015-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shutterstock_240592015-900x636.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) urges poll watchdog and civil society groups to join in its fight against premature campaigning.<\/p>\n<p>Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista is hoping that these groups will be more involved against early publicities of those who are looking to participate in next year\u2019s national and local elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe well-meaning civil society organizations should come out and say <em>\u2018ito yong mga type o ginagawa ng mga kandidato\u2019, \u2018dapat ba silang iboto?<\/em>\u2019\u201d he said in a weekly-forum in Manila on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>With this, Bautista is convinced that citizens\u2019 organizations have the ability to influence the public on how to choose their candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Dapat yung mga botante<\/em>, the church groups, watchdogs saying these are the kind of candidates. You know (the effect), if you elect,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The poll body chief noted that the moral aspect should be the focus against premature campaigning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the end, dapat, to me, more than legal, it\u2019s a moral question. Kumbaga, the letter of the law, they are not violating. But how about the spirit of the law?\u201d Bautista added.<\/p>\n<p>Republic Act 9369 states, \u201cany person who files his certificate of candidacy (COC) shall only be considered as a candidate at the start of the campaign period\u201d and that \u201cunlawful acts applicable to a candidate shall be in effect only upon that start of the campaign period\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, the provision was affirmed by Supreme Court case of Penera vs. Comelec, which paved the way for the removal of premature campaigning as an election offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) urges poll watchdog and civil society groups to join in its fight against &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":50594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50418","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=50418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}