Although surveys are common during elections, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) Monday expressed no interest in taking part or even conducting surveys convinced that it would only distract them from their original task which is voters’ education.

“We will never take part in surveys,” Ambassador Henrietta de Villa, PPCRV national chairperson, said in a statement.

The PPCRV official issued the statement to clarify reports that it has commissioned a survey of presidential candidates for the May 10 polls.

De Villa said it has never been the policy of PPCRV to commission, participate or be involved in any survey whatsoever, nor has it authorized any group to do so.

“PPCRV does not focus on conducting surveys. We are a non-partisan movement committed to clean, honest, accurate, meaningful and peaceful elections and have been conducting voters’ education nationwide,” she said.

“Our focus is to help inform the voters about the process of choosing their candidates to enable them to make wise decisions on election day,” added De Villa.

Aside from voters’ education, PPCRV is also preparing its volunteer poll watchers for their election day duties in the country’s first automated elections.

PPCRV is a Catholic Church-backed poll watchdog group and the citizens arm of the Commission on Elections in the May 10 elections.