According to Commission on Election or COMELEC, celebrities endorsing politicians or those who are running for a government position should take a leaver of absence from their work or shows while joining the campaign, where the start of the campaign for the national candidates started last February 9 and will last until May 8, two days before the election. While for the local candidates, campaign starts on March 26.
Republic Act 9006 or the Fair Elections Act clearly prohibits actors from making anymore appearances once they endorse or volunteer for a candidate during the campaign period according to Ferdinand Rafanan of the Comelec Law Department.

Section 6.6 of the law reads: “Any mass media columnist, commentator, announcer, reporter, on-air correspondent or personality who is a candidate for any elective public office or is a campaign volunteer for or employed or retained in any capacity by any candidate or political party shall be deemed resigned, if so required by [his] employer, or shall take a leave of absence from his/her work as such during the campaign period.”