2022 Elections.

One viral TikTok video played over 3.6 million times in just two days depicts Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “true friend” of the Philippines, using clips from a 2017 GMA…

Feb. 25 is a non-working holiday in the Philippines, but President Rodrigo Duterte never attended the EDSA commemoration rites and merely issued official statements prepared by…

The music blared and the huge crowd roared in cheer — many shone lights from their mobile phones — as the pink truck of presidential candidate Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo, entered…

The party-list elections have become a back door for politicians to perpetuate themselves in power, said Danilo Arao, a journalism professor and convenor of the election watchdog…

CHECK THIS PAGE FOR PCIJ's INVESTIGATIVE AND IN-DEPTH REPORTS ON THE MAY 2022 ELECTIONS. Candidates in the May 2022 elections opened their campaigns on Tuesday, Feb. 8, drawing…

Without a law banning or limiting pre-election campaigning, many national candidates advertised with impunity in the past year, with several aspirants for national positions airing…

After a slow start, former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. topped ad spending among all candidates in December, signalling what could be the beginning of heavy spending to keep his…

Candidates’ ads on Facebook have so far remained small relative to their total ad spending. The popular social media platform’s ad monitoring tool does not include payments to…

It underscores the difficulty of monitoring campaign spending on the internet, which campaign finance reform advocates said would become a big challenge in the 2022 elections.

Alan Peter Cayetano, who initially aspired for the presidency, was the top ad spender from January to September 2021. But this was overshadowed by the combined ads of Senate…

Tomas Moron has lived in a makeshift home on the grounds of the Cebu International Convention Center for five years. He and his neighbors want the Mandaue city government to honor…

Tweet Who wants to be the next Philippine president? And who are their runningmates? The Commission on Elections started receiving certificates of candidacy (COCs) for the 2022…

Inclusion should be given equal, if not more attention, because elections are precisely about citizens exercising their power as sovereigns. No portion of the population must be…

The Makabayan bloc warns that the government’s campaign against dissent won’t stop at members of the progressive coalition.

Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, former senator Antonio Trillanes IV, and many local politicians are top ad spenders on Facebook a year before the polls. The Commission on Elections is…

“The Ads Library and authorization process will provide detailed transparency information around political advertising throughout the election, as well as mitigate foreign…

This is the calendar of activities for the 2022 elections, based on Resolution No. 10695 issued by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in February 2021.

Campaign finance is an important, if not the most important aspect, of any electoral exercise. One’s capacity to run for office is largely hinged on their access to resources.

May Butoy and Helen Graido of the Legal Network for Truthful Elections (Lente) are in Palawan for the first elections to be held during the pandemic, taking crucial lessons for the…