Covering Campaign Finance: The Philippine Experience
Campaign finance is an important, if not the most important aspect, of any electoral exercise. One’s capacity to run for office is largely hinged on their access to resources.
BY KAROL ILAGAN AND FLOREEN SIMON
May 9, 2021 | 07:00:00 AM
This is a chapter in the book
Media Reporting of Elections in Asia published and released by the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) on May 3, 2021.
President Rodrigo Duterte is not one to keep his lips sealed about money. As a presidential candidate then, the former mayor would tease audiences about the state of his finances and donors whose money he supposedly accepted and refused.