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Bakit di dapat 'tapalan' ang assets list ng mga taga-gobyerno

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 31 09:09 PM

Habang isang hamon ang pagseguro na mabubusisi ng karaniwang tao ang public documents, ibang hamon naman ang pagseguro na tama at makatotohanan ang nakapaloob sa mga dokumentong ito. Read more »

Duterte: Cynthia Villar helped me during 2016 campaign

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 05 09:37 PM

MANILA – President Rodrigo on Thursday said Senator Cynthia Villar supported him in the May 2016 presidential campaign.  Read more »

Bets for president, VP, senator splurge P5.8B in May 2016 polls

Floreen M. Simon, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Updated as of Aug 10 12:57 PM

ELECTIONS 2016’s 50 candidates for national office and the political parties that fielded them spent P5.8 billion across the 90-day campaign period, PCIJ has found in its review of documents submitted to the country’s poll body. Read more »

Bask in name recall, spend a mite: How Duterte's kids win elections

Ma. Cecilia Badian, Fellow, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Posted at Aug 09 08:42 PM

Candidates in Philippine elections usually complain about what many of them say are outdated, low campaign-spending caps. But the Dutertes of Davao City apparently have no problem with spending limits – at least when they’re running in their family’s political turf. Read more »

Pasay City bets for mayor deflate, omit key election expense items

Ryan Jay Roset, Fellow, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Updated as of Aug 09 06:54 PM

One of them was determined to keep his post while the other two wanted to wrest from him the title of Mayor of Pasay City, one of the smallest cities in Metro Manila but which is nevertheless classified as first-class in terms of income.  Read more »

Iloilo City bets for mayor fail to report full bill for radio ads

Maricyn A. de los Santos, Fellow, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Updated as of Aug 09 11:55 AM

IN THEIR bid to be Iloilo City’s chief executive from 2016 to 2019, then incumbent Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog (Liberal Party) and Dr. Marigold Gonzalez (Independent, but with support from the United Nationalist Alliance) staged a costly advertising war that later ran into a total of more than P1 million for radio spots alone. Read more »

3,937 candidates in May 2016 did not file poll expense reports

The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Posted at Aug 08 04:20 AM

According to the Comelec Campaign Finance Office (CFO), 3,937 candidates in the May 2016 elections, as well as six political parties, and six party-list groups did not submit their Statement of Election Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE) by the June 30, 2016 extended deadline. Read more »

OPINION: LP SOCE case being eyed for oust-Leni operation?

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Posted at Jan 13 01:39 PM

Amid the many items in media not favorable to Vice President Leni Robredo- LeniLeaks, banned from Cabinet meetings, disinvited by Malacanang in the New Year Vin d'honneur, drop in satisfaction ratings – another one came up the other day. Read more »

LENTE: Candidates should specify donors in SOCE

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 09 02:03 AM

An investigative media report has raised questions over how candidates should identify the sources of their campaign funding. Read more »

Comelec to hear PCIJ report on campaign funding

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 08 03:57 PM

MANILA - The Commission on Elections has invited the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) on Tuesday to share with them its investigative report on the contributions to the campaign funds of candidates in the May 2016 elections. Read more »

Cayetano donations to Duterte campaign higher than 2015 net worth

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 08 02:08 PM

This report reveals Senator Alan Peter Cayetano contributed P71.3 million in tandem ads to the 2016 campaign of Rodrigo Duterte, which is three times higher than his P23.6 million declared net worth in 2015.  Read more »

Fundraisers scooped P383M for Binay from secret donors

Karol Ilagan, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Updated as of Dec 08 11:32 AM

Germelina I. Taylor, Wilbert T. Lee, Danilo E. Suarez, and Teddie E. Rivera were among the 10 biggest donors of then presidential candidate Jejomar C. Binay. The four alone gave Binay P172.3 million altogether – except the money wasn’t really theirs. Read more »

Donors, Inc.: Only 830 Filipinos bankrolled poll bid of 5 prez bets

The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Updated as of Dec 05 01:23 PM

IN 2010, PCIJ reported that only 308 donors contributed in the presidential race that Benigno Aquino III won. In the last presidential elections, where Rodrigo R. Duterte emerged as victor, that number has shot up to 830. Read more »

P334M from only 13 donors funded Duterte's presidency

Karol Ilagan and Malou Mangahas, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Updated as of Dec 05 12:41 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed at least half a dozen of his donors and their relatives to Cabinet and other positions, even as one campaign contributor has already snared government contracts and flaunted on social media his claimed closeness to the President. Read more »

Comelec probes Duterte’s campaign finance

Maria Feona Imperial, VERA Files
Updated as of Oct 25 03:06 PM

The Commission on Elections Campaign Finance Office (CFO) has started looking into campaign finance records of President Rodrigo Duterte after it found that he had not declared Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos as a campaign donor in his Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE). Read more »

Comelec: De Lima's campaign contributors list available

Pia Gutierrez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 23 05:23 PM

MANILA – Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Andres Bautista said that the poll body is willing to provide the Senate and House of Representatives a copy of the Senator Leila De Lima's Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE) should they ask for it. Read more »

LOOK: 'Narco' mayor spent only P38k in May polls

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 04 05:54 PM

Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. spent only P38,150 on his electoral campaign in the May 2016 election, according to his own statement of contributions and expenditures submitted to the Commission on Elections. Read more »

SC to Comelec: Comment on PDP-Laban plea on SOCE

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 12 03:16 PM

The Supreme Court has directed the Comelec to file its comment on the plea of the political party of President Rodrigo Duterte, PDP-Laban, to nullify and revoke the extension of deadline for the filing of Statement of Contributions and Expenditures. Read more »

Duterte's party asks SC to revoke SOCE deadline extension

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 07 12:44 PM

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte's political party, Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), filed on Thursday with the Supreme Court (SC) a petition that seeks to nullify and revoke the extension of deadline for the filing of Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE) by the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Read more »

SC strikes down plea vs Comelec's SOCE extension

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 28 04:26 PM

MANILA (1st UPDATE) - The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday rejected a petition to nullify the Commission on Elections (Comelec) ruling granting an extension of the deadline of candidates and parties to submit their campaign expenditure reports. Read more »