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By Francis Earl A. Cueto, Reporter
Detained President Joseph Estrada
is not pleased with the political television commercials of the
Genuine Opposition and wants them changed immediately, a source in
the opposition camp said Thursday.
GO had previewed for media the
four 30-second ads that highlight basic issues against the Arroyo
administration: poverty, economics, human rights and hunger.
The ads do not show the names or
faces of the GO’s 11 senatorial candidates.
The source said that instead of
being impressed, Estrada several GO senatorial candidates complained
that the ads, two of which are already being aired, looked more like
an ad for a party-list organization.
Estrada disliked the fact that
the ads focused more on the opposition coalition and not on
promoting or selling the candidates themselves.
“He is not happy with the
political ads. He was expecting the commercials to focus more on the
candidates but instead it focused mainly of the coalition party,”
the source said. Estrada wants the ads scrapped and replaced with
commercials that would concentrate on the candidates.
A 30-second ad on TV ranges from
P120,000 to P150,000 per showing on primetime.
GO spokesman Adel Tamano had said
that one of the ads was aired on a TV station last week.
Tamano said the names or photos
of the GO candidates were not included because they are supposed to
be campaigning as a team.
He said GO’s lawyers have
scrutinized the ads to check for libelous material.
The TV ads are expected to be
shown on Sunday in a major TV station while other stations will air
one or two separately.
The opposition coalition said it
would also produce a common TV ad, this time showing the pictures of
its candidates.
San Juan Mayor Joseph Victor
Ejercito, GO’s deputy campaign manager, dismissed as intrigue the
issue over the TV commercials.
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