00:00At the same time as the kick-off of the campaign period,
00:02the illegal campaign materials were banned.
00:05Comelec also reminded those who will put campaign materials
00:09on public vehicles.
00:11Sandra Aguinaldo has a report.
00:16Campaign posters attached to posters or electric wires
00:20were banned by Comelec at the start of the campaign today.
00:24Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia himself
00:27was one of the first to ban illegal campaign posters in Manila.
00:32In Quezon City, a barrier was used to remove the posters
00:36that were not in the right place.
00:38Those attached to the posters were crossed.
00:40The banned campaign posters reached six trucks.
00:44What about the billboards of the candidates in EDSA?
00:49Comelec said that they cannot ban these
00:52because they are on private property.
00:54But the bus passengers were told to talk differently.
00:58The fact that an entity is taking a franchise
01:02because an entity becomes public.
01:05So they cannot claim that they are purely private property.
01:09They are private, that's right.
01:11But the nature of these buses became public.
01:14Campaign materials were also banned
01:16that were not in the common poster area
01:18in Lapu-Lapu City in Cebu,
01:20Iloilo City, and Bacolod City.
01:23The campaign materials of the local candidates were not removed
01:27because their campaign period started on March 28.
01:31But it can be removed by local government units
01:34according to their ordinances.
01:37According to Comelec,
01:39the argument of the opponents of politics
01:42is that the illegal campaign materials are not enough.
01:44We always allow their arguments that we did not attach.
01:50We will not remove the supporters or opponents
01:53or we will sue all of them.
01:57Comelec will hide the collected posters
02:00that may be used as evidence against the candidates.
02:03They may face election offense and disqualification.
02:07That's why the candidates should follow the regulations.
02:12Sandra Aguinaldo reporting for GMA Integrated News.
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