120 Minutes of Advertisement for National Candidates

Saturday, February 6, 2010 |

The national candidates has been warned by COMELEC that they only have 120 minutes to show the campaign in Television.

Under election rules that will take effect during the campaign period, national candidates are limited to only 120 minutes of airtime on television and 180 minutes on radio for the entire campaign. Local candidates are limited to an hour of television airtime and an hour and a half of radio airtime.

The Comelec released late Thursday the campaign rules and regulations for the May elections, saying it was encouraging voters to be vigilant in reporting violations by candidates.

The campaign period starts on Feb. 9 for national candidates and March 26 for local candidates. It ends on May 8, two days before the precincts open on May 10. Source

So I suggest to all candidates to use Internet and social media to dissimintae information to Filipinos.

National Election Campaign Will begin Soon

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I have seen in the news that the National Election will begin soon. I have also seen that each candidate is given a specified air time in television and in radio but internet is not part of it. Maybe because they knew that the candidate can't control what is going on in the internet.
Now if you own a blog would be able to accommodate ads by candidates ? I think soon we can see like what happen in US where Barack Obama uses google adwords to show his face all over the net.
Candidates can actuall do this because they can choose in Google Adwords that they can only show thei ads in Philippines.
I just hope that the use of Internet will not be to much.