Poll bets urged: Name campaign donors

A former commissioner of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday urged those running in the midterm elections to bare the sources of their campaign funds, including those used to finance advertisements before the start of the campaign period.

- JANVIC MATEO

In an interview with "Storycon" on One News, election reform specialist and former Comelec commissioner Luie Tito Guia also urged the public to seek transparency from candidates running for public office,” he added.

Guia was reacting to a recent report of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, which found that the value of the advertisements placed by some of those running in this year’s elections are already worth millions – or billions, in the case of Sen. Imee Marcos and Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar.

The amounts cited in the report were based on “published rate cards or before discounts.”