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Campaign finance in May 2016

Bask in name recall, spend a mite:
Or how Duterte’s kids win elections

by Ma. Cecilia Badian, PCIJ Fellow*

CANDIDATES IN Philippine elections usually complain about what many of them say are outdated, low campaign-spending caps. But the Dutertes of Davao City apparently have no problem with spending limits – at least when they’re running in their family’s political turf.As a mayoralty candidate of Davao City in the 2016 elections, Sara Duterte-Carpio spent only […]

Read more… | Posted Wednesday, August 9th, 2017
Campaign finance in May 2016

Pasay City bets for mayor deflate,
omit key election expense items

by Ryan Jay Roset, PCIJ Fellow*

ONE OF them was determined to keep his post while the other two wanted to wrest from him the title of Mayor of Pasay City, one of the smallest cities in Metro Manila but which is nevertheless classified as first-class in terms of income. Yet Jose Antonio F. Roxas, Jorge C. del Rosario, and Antonino […]

Read more… | Posted Wednesday, August 9th, 2017
Campaign finance in May 2016

Iloilo City bets for mayor fail
to report full bill for radio ads

by Maricyn A. de los Santos, PCIJ Fellow*

IN THEIR bid to be Iloilo City’s chief executive from 2016 to 2019, then incumbent Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog (Liberal Party) and Dr. Marigold Gonzalez (Independent, but with support from the United Nationalist Alliance) staged a costly advertising war that later ran into a total of more than P1 million for radio spots alone. Yet […]

Read more… | Posted Wednesday, August 9th, 2017
Slow, steady progress on campaign finance

Only 54 overspenders of 44,600 bets in May 2016

by The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

ONE WOULD think that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) should be happy that the number of candidates who went over the prescribed campaign spending limits in last year’s elections plunged drastically from the 2013 figure. But that doesn’t seem to be the case, with the poll body’s Campaign Finance Office (CFO), saying it is still […]

Read more… | Posted Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

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