Those who ran as President in the last election are now starting to submit their list of campaign expenditures although it’s late submission. The Commission on Election (COMELEC) spokesperson thinks that some expenditure reports submitted by national candidates are “far less than what we saw.” Even voters can’t believe that one of the candidates just spent P431.55 million in spite of his advertisement on TV, radio, prints and even online.

COMELEC Resolution 8944 allows national candidates to spend P10 per registered voter. That’s a total of P510 million. Many believe that this candidate spent more than a billion. Even some of his advertisement aired before the campaign period was not included in the campaign limits at that. But still if you will add expenses for campaign paraphernalias, posters, gimmicks, online printing, T-shirts and endorsers’ talent fee. Hopefully, the COMELEC will really put an emphasis to this because in the interest of transparency and honesty.