MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Wednesday it prefers varying spending limits for election campaigns based on locations.
Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said that while the latest recommendation in Congress to increase the spending limit per voter to P50 would be an improvement from the current P3, the Comelec still prefers a “moving scale” of campaign spending cap depending on locations.
“While that would be an improvement on the P3 per voter, the Comelec actually favors a moving scale depending on the location, so the spending limit would be different in Metro Manila versus say, a small town somewhere in the Visayas, somewhere in Mindanao,…
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