Comelec files disqualification cases vs. 35 BSKE candidates for premature campaigning
Comelec files disqualification cases vs. 35 BSKE candidates for premature campaigning
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00:00 All in sundry have been warned and given notice on prematurely and illegally going on the stump before the official campaign period.
00:07 And if anyone dares to test the resolve of one poll body commissioner, George Garcia, feel free to end out first hand what it's like, just as the latest ones and those before them did.
00:17 PTV correspondent Luisa Erispe on the cases the Comlac has filed for going on the stump before Comlac's campaign start date.
00:28 More than a month before the Barangayan SK elections and almost three weeks before the start of the campaign period,
00:34 some candidates are simply being stubborn when they choose to violate the omnibus election code by premature campaigning.
00:42 That's why the Commission on Elections filed 35 cases against them.
00:46 This is a Motu Proprio petition filed by Comlac's task force Anti-Epal against the candidates from regions 3, 4 and the NCR.
00:55 Petition for disqualification is grounded on violations of section 80.
00:59 That's premature campaigning, meaning active campaigning done outside the campaign period.
01:03 You know that our campaign period will start on October 19.
01:07 And they have been conducting campaigning now since they have filed the COC,
01:12 that's why we have the reason to file or valid cause to file petition for disqualification against them.
01:18 The Comlac revealed the different kinds of premature campaigning.
01:22 Some of them are through social media, posters or by giving away campaign materials.
01:27 We have, based on the determination of the documents and their answers, we have a legal basis that they have violated section 80.
01:36 Candidates will have five days to answer accordingly.
01:39 The Comlac assures all these cases will be raffled and resolved immediately before election day on October 30.
01:46 We only have until October 30 to speak for us to file the petition for disqualification.
01:53 And from the time the same has been submitted for resolution,
01:57 that's the time the commission will have the period to resolve the cases submitted to us.
02:02 Louisa Erispe for the Nation.
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