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The election big spenders
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MONEY AND THE MAY 2019 ELECTIONS
P2.4-B pre-campaign ads: Bong Go, Marcos, Roxas, Roque top spenders
by Malou Mangahas
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TO THE last, they have pledged to fight poverty and corruption, promote health and education, protect the environment, and serve the poor who make up a majority of over 60 million registered voters.
Yet while politics may divide them, money, apparent access to state funds and facilities, and donations from private pockets and public coffers that could have funded their pol ads seem to unite those with the biggest pre-campaign adspend among the senatorial candidates in the upcoming May elections.
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Competing for only 12 Senate seats are 61 candidates, making for a rather crowded pool. Not surprisingly, based on data from Nielsen Media, the major candidates for senator from the administration and opposition parties and some independents appear to have already turned the May 2019 polls into a virtual marketplace for votes, starting with a circus of pre-campaign ads on air, on ground, and online.
From January 2018 to January 2019, the combined ad spending of 18 candidates on TV, radio, print, and outdoor ads have reached PhP2.4 billion, by the rate card of media agencies monitored by Nielsen Media. Yet, just a few have net worth values bigger than their respective adspend.
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In fact, those with the lowest net worth, the biggest liabilities, and the smallest cash on hand are, as of their latest Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALN), among the biggest spenders on pre-campaign ads.
The possible sources of those millions of pesos poured into pre-campaign ads include hidden or unexplained wealth, public funds, and even indirect bribery from private donors.
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