Practice question
Eight months before an election, a business receives a PHP500,000 government loan. It then seeks to make a partisan contribution. Assume the loan is within Section 95(e) and no separate exception applies. Which result follows?
- The source falls within the one-year, over-PHP100,000 government-accommodation prohibition
- Only government grants, never loans, matter
- The prohibition requires a loan of at least PHP10 million
- A business may waive its own statutory prohibition
- The one-year period runs only after election day
Legal references
- BP 881: https://lawphil.net/statutes/bataspam/bp1985/bp_881_1985.html Section 95(e).
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