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Philippine priest to voters: Don’t be blinded by money

Country has history of vote-buying scandals
Philippine priest to voters: Don’t be blinded by money
Published: May 03, 2016 05:43 AM GMT
Updated: May 03, 2016 05:45 AM GMT

With barely a week to go to before elections, a priest encouraged voters to pray more fervently and resist being blinded by money.

Father Oscar Lorenzo stressed this point in the face of massive vote-buying during elections in spite of the Commission on Elections' reminder that the practice is against the Omnibus Election Code.

"This time voters are not anymore terrorized by bullets, but by money," he exclaimed, saying he has received reports that local candidates will still use this dirty tactic to win votes.

"On the last two nights before the elections, May 7 and 8, as one coordinator had told me, the (leg men) of candidates will be going around to distribute money to the voters in exchange of votes for their candidates," said the priest.

According to him, "truth is compromised" when votes are sold or bought, saying it "breeds falsehood."

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