This document outlines rules and regulations for election propaganda for the May 2016 national and local elections in the Philippines. It allows election propaganda through various media such as television, radio, newspapers, and the internet. It defines what types of materials are allowed, such as pamphlets, posters, streamers, vehicles with sound systems, and paid advertisements. It encourages using recyclable and environmentally friendly materials and requires indicating materials should be recycled.
This document outlines rules and regulations for election propaganda for the May 2016 national and local elections in the Philippines. It allows election propaganda through various media such as television, radio, newspapers, and the internet. It defines what types of materials are allowed, such as pamphlets, posters, streamers, vehicles with sound systems, and paid advertisements. It encourages using recyclable and environmentally friendly materials and requires indicating materials should be recycled.
This document outlines rules and regulations for election propaganda for the May 2016 national and local elections in the Philippines. It allows election propaganda through various media such as television, radio, newspapers, and the internet. It defines what types of materials are allowed, such as pamphlets, posters, streamers, vehicles with sound systems, and paid advertisements. It encourages using recyclable and environmentally friendly materials and requires indicating materials should be recycled.
This document outlines rules and regulations for election propaganda for the May 2016 national and local elections in the Philippines. It allows election propaganda through various media such as television, radio, newspapers, and the internet. It defines what types of materials are allowed, such as pamphlets, posters, streamers, vehicles with sound systems, and paid advertisements. It encourages using recyclable and environmentally friendly materials and requires indicating materials should be recycled.
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Resolution No.
10049 Promulgation: 01 February 2016
RULES AND REGULATIONS IMPLEMENTING REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9006,
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE "FAIR ELECTIONS ACT", IN CONNECTION WITH THE 09 MAY 2016 NATIONAL AND LOCAL ELECTIONS
SECTION 6. Lawful Election Propaganda - Election propaganda, whether on television or
cable television, radio, newspaper, the Internet or any other medium, is hereby allowed for all parties and for all bona fide candidates seeking national and local elective positions, subject to the limitation on authorized expenses of candidates and parties, observation of truth in advertising, and to the supervision and regulation by the COMELEC.
Lawful election propaganda shall include:
a. Pamphlets, leaflets, cards, decals, stickers or other written or printed
materials the size of which DOES NOT EXCEED eight and one-half (8 V2) inches in width and fourteen (14) inches in length;
b. Handwritten or printed letters urging voters to vote for or against any particular political party or candidate for public office;
c. Posters made of cloth, paper, cardboard or any other material, whether framed or posted, with an area not exceeding two (2) feet by three (3) feet;
d. Streamers NOT EXCEEDING THREE (3) feet by eight (8) feet in size displayed at the site and on the occasion of a public meeting or rally. Said streamers may be displayed five (5) days before the date of the meeting or rally and shall be removed within twenty-four (24) hours after said meeting or rally;
e. Mobile units, vehicles motorcades of all types, whether engine or manpower
driven or animal-drawn, with or without sound systems or loud speakers and with or without lights;
f. Paid advertisements in print or broadcast media subject to the requirements set
forth in Section l1 hereof and the Fair Elections Act;
g. In the headquarters or residences of candidates, lawful eleclion paraphernalia may
be displayed, but banners or streamers referred to in paragraph (d) above shall not be allowed; and
h. AJI other forms of election propaganda not prohibited by the Omnibus Election Code or these rule.
Parties and candidates are hereby encouraged to use recyclable and environment- friendly materials and to avoid those that contain hazardous chemicals and substances in the production of their campaign and election propaganda.
Parties and candidates are hereby required to indicate in their printed campaign materials the phrase: "This material should be recycled". Jn local government units where local ordinances governing the use of plastic and other similar materials exist, parties and candidates shall comply with the same.
