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Fr. Romeo Empestan and Monsignor Felix Pasquin are of the generation that the late Bacolod Bishop Antonio Fortich nurtured and led in campaigns against human rights violations and oppressive economic conditions in Negros Island
'The Comelec cannot prescribe what the law does not provide. The Comelec may find some gaps in the law, but it is not within its power to supply the gaps,' says election lawyer Romulo Macalintal
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'Diocese of Bacolod v. Comelec proposes that during elections, it is the voice of the voter, not the candidate’s, that should ring loudest'
The Comelec and its critics appear to have a different appreciation of a landmark 2015 Supreme Court ruling, which tackled the case involving a huge poster installed on private property
One presidential aspirant says it's 'unfair' to remove campaign posters on private property; another candidate says the Comelec should revisit its rules