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Candidates who will not participate in the debates organized by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will lose their slots in the poll body's e-rally platforms until the end of the campaign period. ....
(Screengrab from Comelec Facebook live video) MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will not allow national candidates to use their e-rally platforms if they will not attend the presidential and vice-presidential debates to be hosted by the poll body, an official said on Monday. "We do have an e-rally that we do allow them to use the platform and one of the arguments is that if they skip the debates then they will not be able to air their e-rallies on our e-rally platform," Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said in a press briefing after the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the poll body and Vote Pilipinas at the Sofitel Hotel in Pasay City. The MOA is in connection with the staging of Pilipinas Debates 2022. Jimenez said this penalty will be in effect until the end of the campaign period. Comelec acting chairperson Socorro Inting is hoping that all the nine presidential candidates and 10 vice-presidential aspirants are going to attend the debates. ....
National candidates who will refuse to participate in the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) upcoming debates will no longer be allowed to make use of the poll body’s e-rally platform. In a news conference on Monday, Comelec Acting Chairman Socorro B. Inting announced they will impose the sanction to “incentivize” candidates… ....
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