By Marvin Sy (The Philippine Star) | Updated February 21, 2013 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines - The camp of former senator Jamby Madrigal admitted yesterday ownership of the Facebook page that posted a contest offering free iPads and apologized for the controversy.
Ernesto Francisco, one of Madrigal’s lawyers, denied that the candidate approved the promotion and blamed her young campaign volunteers for launching the project without her knowledge.
Francisco said Madrigal has no intention of violating the law.
“She will be the last person to violate any election law,” he said.
“Now if indeed something happened and it’s already a violation of any election law, she apologizes to the Comelec for what the volunteers must have done and she wants to assure the Comelec and the public that such incident will not be repeated,” he said. “She assured that from this time on, her campaign team will follow whatever the law provides.”
He said that there was no effort by Madrigal to deny the existence of the Facebook contest.
“She did not know anything about the incident. When her attention was called to it, she immediately instructed her team to have it removed,” Francisco said in a press briefing held at the Liberal Party headquarters in Cubao, Quezon City.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is investigating Madrigal for possible violation of election laws for coming out with a contest that offered a prize.
Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes had disclosed to the media that a probe is being conducted on a senatorial bet that he did not identify. However, a check of the Facebook account of Madrigal indeed showed a game being held and the prize offered was an iPad tablet.
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