AS part of its intensified crackdown on illegal campaign materials of national candidates, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said it has removed over 100,000 such materials.
On February 28, a total of 124,365 posters were removed, according to Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia, who announced the data at the poll body’s regular monthly briefing for election watchdogs and practitioners.
Garcia also said they have issued 2,463 “notice to remove” documents ordering senatorial and party-list candidates to take down their campaign materials.
More than half of them, or 1,561, complied with the 72-hour deadline to remove their campaign materials, Garcia said.
Garcia urged candidates to comply with the commission’s order to avoid problems.
He said that once the notice to remove is received, their campaign materials should be taken down.
According to the official, it is very difficult for a candidate to have a pending election offense with the Comelec, which mentioned that the poll body has resolved an unprecedented number of election cases under his term, at 84 percent.
Garcia hopes that the number of cases will not increase.
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