A politician in the Philippines claimed to have had a hand in the development of the very controversial e-sabong platform he operated e-sabong so he can make a lot of money so he can use for the campaign, and his family to win local elections because the election in the Philippines is very costly many candidates are buying votes to secure their win, there were reports that he murdered their family's opponent because of e-sabong.
Do you think that government should have a rule or a law for election candidates not to have a franchise in any form of gambling, in fact, there are a lot of politicians who are operators of illegal small-town lotteries this is to accumulate funds they can use for election campaigns.
In general, if it's a legitimate business I wouldn't see a problem with it, but if you're talking about murder and illegal lotteries, well, I don't. The problem is not so much using a legitimate business to finance your campaign, but rather the opposite, that what they are doing to finance their campaigns is illegal, and it happens to be related to gambling as it could be related to another sector.
I don't know if you realise your contradiction. If they are breaking the law, a new law is not going to do any good, because they are going to break it anyway.
After all, gambling has a large market share, so it's no wonder that many politicians have side businesses such as casinos or nightclubs
But it should not be open to the public, if I'm a politician I would not think of openly admitting I'm running one because it will ruin my credibility as a public servant, especially for new politicians, and there's always a perception that politicians will use their political power to advance or cover up any misbehavior of their platform, like if there are complaints on their platform, they will bribe investigators and prosecutors because, in the first place, the politicians like senators are the ones who allocate funding on different government agencies.
Here we are again with the same thing. It is not so much the gambling that is the problem as the illegal behaviour of politicians. This does not happen in Europe (there is gambling and there are politicians who engage in behaviour that is questionable to say the least, but nowhere near what you are describing).
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