Candidate spent P20K to win in 2019 polls

DESPITE spending only around P20,000 to finance his campaign for the May 13, 2019 elections, Cebu fourth district Provincial Board (PB) Member Horacio Paul “Raci” Franco was still able to secure a reelection.

Franco is the third poll candidate to file his Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (Soce).

Enacted in 1991, Republic Act 7166 provides for synchronized national and local elections and for electoral reforms. Section 13 specifies amounts that a candidate or registered political party may spend for an election campaign.

An aspiring president and vice president shall only spend P10 per registered voter. Other candidates spend P3 per voter.

Independent candidates or candidates without the support of political parties, though, may spend up to P5 per voter.

Political parties and party-list groups may spend P5 per voter.

In his statement filed before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Cebu provincial office Thursday, June 6, Franco declared total expenditures of P20,500.

The biggest chunk of Franco’s expenditures was for the compensation of two campaigners who each received an honorarium of P4,000.

He also spent P7,500 for the printing and distribution of campaign materials and P5,000 for travel expenses.

The fourth district is composed of Bogo City, and the towns of Bantayan, Daanbantayan, Madridejos, Medellin, San Remigio, Santa Fe, Tabogon and Tabuelan.

A member of the Liberal Party, Franco garnered the second highest number of votes with 84,647.

Despite being a neophyte, Kerrie Shimura of the National Unity Party got the highest number of votes in the district with 104,899.

She will be replacing her husband, outgoing fourth district PB Member Sun Shimura, who will assume the mayorship of Daanbantayan at noon of June 30.

Mico Pacheco of the Nationalist People’s Coalition, on the other hand, got 72,213 votes, while independent candidate Sammy Moralde got 25,055 votes.

Comelec rules require election bets, whether winner or loser, to submit their Soce by June 12, or 30 days after the May 13 elections. No elected official may assume office without filing the Soce. (RTF)

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