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Comelec urges aggrieved bets: File charges vs. survey groups |
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Source Hader Glang (Zambotimes)
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Wednesday, 18 April 2007 |
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The Commission on Elections has urged aggrieved candidates to file a complaint against survey groups for not complying with the Comelec's rules and regulations on the release of survey results.
District 1 election officer Roy Cuevas said that the Tincungco Group of Researchers and Statfacts-WMSU have been releasing survey results for several times now without complying with the Comelec’s rules and regulations.
"We are advising the aggrieved party to file a complaint against the survey groups for violating the Comelec rules and regulations," Cuevas said.
Upon the receipt of complaint, he said, his office can issue a subpoena to the survey groups for them to explain why they did not inform the Comelec in conducting the survey.
"Survey is subject to certain guidelines. In fact, Republic Act (RA) 7767 lays down the rules in surveys," the election officer explained.
Earlier, vice mayoralty candidate Vic Solis of Nuevo Zamboanga warned the survey groups of the potential violation of the law and the Comelec rules and regulations on the release of survey results
Solis was referring to the Tincungco and Statsfact surveys, in which re-electionist mayor Celso Lobregat, congressional bets Beng Climaco for District 1 and Erbie A Fabian for District 2 are leading by wide margin.
Kampi-Lakas coalition party council candidates of District 1 and District 2, who were not included in the Top 8. described the survey as unfair and not credible
Mayoralty candidate Cris "Monsi" dela Cruz, standard bearer of local Kampi, and leader of the Nuevo Zamboanga Movement blamed Lobregat for the survey, calling it as biased.
Dela Cruz said he is not surprised on the result of the latest surveys that the camp of his political opponents are peddling to the public
"Let Celso all the time think that I am weak. Anyway, what matters most is the votes of the people and not the survey of his groups, which are part of Ins machinery” he said.
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