Candidates MUST Clean-Up After Themselves

Because quite frankly it's a mess.

During the campaign period all sorts of campaign paraphernalia and materials were used to shout out to all who would care to read or listen the merits of this or that candidate.

We were awoken at six in the morning to the sounds of each candidate's song - sung by bad singers who can't even enunciate well.

Case in point - one of the candidates for councilor in my hometown had a song that instead of his name I heard "lychee."

Good if you're the fruit, bad if you're the candidate.

But at least that kind of pollution (and who ever first thought about it should be shot) disappears after elections.

What does not disappear as quickly are the ton of streamers, tarpaulins, stickers and what-have-you that the candidates used to tell all of us that they are less of a scoundrel and theif than the next candidate.

It's around and it's hard to remove, especially the stickers.

The thing is the candidates don't clean this up. For them it is not their job despite the fact that they were the ones who put it up in the first place.

They expect everyone else to clean up after them.

It should be mandatory that the candidates should be liable for the clean up of their mess after elections are over.

It shouldn't matter even if it was a supporter that did it - the fact is they are getting the benefit of having their name out.

The Comelec should make it mandatory and should have each candidate put in escrow money to be used for cleaning up.

(I say this out of pure ignorance of course because for all I know they already do)

Anyway they should clean up after themselves and that's that.