The nation’s complete police drive has been ordered to uphold the sanctity of the poll for the Could 2025 polls via the kontra Bigay marketing campaign. | Picture from PRO-7 FB
MANILA – Philippine Nationwide Police (PNP) Chief Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil on Tuesday directed all police personnel to not solely implement but in addition internalize the dedication to the “Kontra Bigay” marketing campaign, as a part of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s imaginative and prescient for clear, sincere, and honest elections on Could 12.
“Because the nation prepares for the 2025 elections, the PNP stands agency in its responsibility to guard the sanctity of the electoral course of. Our personnel is not going to solely implement however wholeheartedly embrace the Kontra Bigay marketing campaign, guaranteeing a clear, sincere, and honest election for each Filipino voter,” Marbil mentioned in an announcement.
The directive is available in full help of the Fee on Elections (Comelec), which launched the Committee on Kontra Bigay or CKB final Feb. 7.
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The CKB strengthens efforts towards vote shopping for and promoting by empowering regulation enforcement companies, together with the PNP, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and the Nationwide Bureau of Investigation (NBI), to conduct surveillance, validate experiences, and take decisive motion towards electoral violations.
Below the expanded Kontra Bigay 2.0, presumed acts of vote-buying and vote-selling —such because the possession or distribution of cash, items, or marketing campaign supplies supposed to affect voters—can be strictly monitored. People caught within the act might face speedy warrantless arrest by regulation enforcement companies.
Marbil has instructed all police items nationwide to accentuate monitoring efforts, conduct info campaigns, and work carefully with Comelec in investigating and performing on experiences of electoral fraud.
“Ang PNP ay patuloy na tutugon pagpapatupad ng batas. Hinihikayat namin ang mamamayan na makiisa at ireport ang anumang uri ng pagbili ng boto o pagbebenta ng boto sa mga awtoridad (The PNP will proceed to reply to regulation enforcement. We encourage the general public to cooperate and report any sort of vote shopping for or vote promoting to the authorities),” Marbil mentioned.
Vote-buying and vote-selling, as outlined beneath Article 12 of the Omnibus Election Code, are punishable by imprisonment of 1 to 6 years.
Complaints could also be filed at Comelec’s primary workplace or at designated Kontra Bigay marketing campaign facilities nationwide. (PNA)
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