Trinidad orders proper campaign poster areas

MANILA, Philippines - Pasay City Mayor Wenceslao Trinidad gave strict orders to the city’s Solid Waste Management Office to check if election campaign materials spread out in the city, are placed only in areas designated by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

Both candidates for national and local posts have long started hanging their posters and banners all over Pasay yet more campaign materials are expected to flood the city.

The Comelec issued strict guidelines concerning posting of campaign materials. Trinidad is calling on all the candidates to strictly follow the guidelines.

To make sure that his directive is being followed, Trinidad tasked City Administrator lawyer Ernestina Bernabe-Carbajal to strictly monitor the activities being undertaken by the City Waste Management Office.

The mayor also issued orders for officials of the City District Office of the Department of Education to ensure that all walls and fences of all public schools in the city are free from election posters and banners.

The campaign guidelines issued by the Comelec, excludes school walls and fences to be used as areas where campaign materials are to posted.

Trinidad said the move is in line with the city’s commitment to making possible a clean, orderly and peaceful elections in the city.