The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday stopped the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from prosecuting Social Weather Stations (SWS) and Pulse Asia for the two pollsters’ alleged violation of the law by withholding information on their financiers.
At their en banc hearing in Baguio City, Mountain Province, SC justices ruled to enjoin the poll body from cracking down on SWS and Pulse Asia for failing to submit names of their officials, payors of and subscribers to surveys that they conducted during the campaign period for the 2013 elections.
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