Parañaque City Mayor Florencio Bernabe Jr. has ordered the Solid Waste and Environmental Services Office to enforce laws against mounting campaign materials in non-designated places.

“We cannot allow any candidate to vandalize our city for their campaign purposes. Even our people will not be allowed to put up our campaign paraphernalia in prohibited areas in the city,” he told office chief Willy de Ocampo.

He said major roads would be monitored to identify violators, who would face charges under the law.

The Commission on Elections, he said, has indicated common poster areas such as plazas, mini parks, basketball courts, markets, barangay halls and vacant lots. Campaign displays may also be installed in private buildings, but only with the permission of the owners.

Bernabe also ordered Benjo Bernabe and Louie Perez of the Youth and Sports Development Office to mobilize volunteers to keep streets and walls clean and poster-free.

The Social Development Office has started organizing out-of-school youth groups to join the drive and help recycle the confiscated campaign materials through the materials recovery program.