Activists want Comelec to look into use of gov’t funds in campaign

Activists filed an appeal before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday, February 20, to investigate President Benigno Aquino III over his alleged use of government funds to campaign for the administration ticket. Aquino, through his local allies, allegedly distributed Philhealth cards and 3 kilos of rice to indigent residents last Thursday, February 14. Publishing a statement from Philhealth, the Palace earlier denied the claim that it uses the national health insurance program for the administration’s campaign.In their letter to Comelec chair Sixto Brillantes Jr, however, the activists blasted Aquino for his “super roadshow political campaign since the start of the campaign season.” They particularly called attention to the supposed distribution of Philhealth cards and rice in Loon, Bohol, on the same day that the opposition group United Nationalist Alliance was holding its Bohol sortie.

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