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Comelec urges aggrieved bets: File charges vs. survey groups

Source Hader Glang (Zambotimes)

Wednesday, 18 April 2007

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. Set as favorite Bookmark Email This Hits: 229 Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment Name Email Website Title Comment smaller | bigger Subscribe via email (Registered users only) I have read and agree to the Terms of Usage. Write the displayed characters Add Comment

 

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