An ongoing joint campaign to remove illegally placed campaign materials is not favoring any candidate, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) maintained Sunday. MMDA executive director Angelio Vergel de Dios made the assurance a week after the joint campaign with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) started. 
Several layers of posters have been placed on a post of the Carriedo Station of the Light Rail Transit in downtown Manila, as the campaign period for the 2010 elections nears its homestretch.
"Parehas ang ginagawa namin basta bawal. Wala sanang sasama ng loob ng kandidato (We do not favor anyone here when we remove illegal campaign materials. We hope the candidates will not take it against us)," De Dios said in an interview on dzBB radio Sunday. The MMDA and the Comelec started last Monday a drive to remove illegally placed campaign posters from the metropolis' main thoroughfares. But one week after the drive started, supporters of candidates appeared to defy authorities by continuing to place posters outside common poster areas. Many new campaign posters of administration candidate Gilberto Teodoro Jr. were seen in parts of Manila, while new posters of some senatorial candidates and party list groups were posted along España Avenue and C.M. Recto Street in Manila. Several streets in downtown Manila also had several layers of posters where posters of some local candidates were placed over those of other candidates. Campaign activities had intensified in past weeks, with barely two weeks to go before the country's first nationwide automated election on May 10.—KBK, GMANews.TV
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