(GMA News) Two Senate hopefuls running under the ticket of presidential aspirant Panfilo Lacson and vice presidential candidate Vicente Sotto III aired their views on separate matters on Thursday: the Commission on Elections’ restrictions during in-person campaigning, and the government importation of agricultural products.

‘Worse than the IATF’

At a press conference at the Lacson-Sotto headquarters in San Juan, senatorial candidate Dr. Minguita Padilla said the rules imposed by the Comelec are worse than the guidelines released by the government’s inter-agency task force that handles the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Perhaps, you can ask Comelec what is the basis of all these rules because it’s worse than the IATF,” Padilla said.

“Bawal mag-selfie kahit lahat bakunado naman, ang daming bawal, even to hand out pamphlets,” she added.

(The candidates are not allowed to take selfies even if we are all fully vaccinated. A lot of things are prohibited, even handing out pamphlets.)

Citing medical studies, Padilla said that it is “very unlikely” to contract COVID-19 from objects.

“There’s so many rules that they gave which we don’t know what’s their basis. Will they be more flexible as our alert level goes down? Will they reconsider their rules because it is very difficult to control the people,” she said in mixed Filipino.