As the Philippines began a five-day holiday marking the county's first election since martial law was declared in 1972, the wife of the leading opposition candidate claimed the party's election campaign was being hindered by television programmes and newspaper reports being heavily weighted in favour of President Marcos. The man who is leading the opposition People's Power Party, former Senator Beningno Aquino, is in jail. He has been there since just after martial law came into force and he is now under sentence of death for alleged subversion, ordering a murder and illegal possession of arms. He has been allowed out of jail once during the run up to the elections. to appear on national television, but his campaign has been conducted vigorously on his behalf by his wife. Visnews reporter Michael Chrisman talked with Mrs Aquino in the garden of her Manila home.