Comelec: No law against negative campaigning

Comelec: No law against negative campaigning

[Cebu Daily Mail] - 02/18/2025

MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Monday that candidates and their supporters are not violating any laws when they criticize opponents during campaign activities. “The Omnibus Election Code itself allows negative campaigning,” Comelec Chairperson George Erwin Garcia said in (…)



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