BEC found irregular in electoral materials
The Central Electoral Bureau decided on Saturday to remove 39 online advertising materials on the grounds that it violates the legal provisions.
« At the meeting on 04.04.2025, the Central Electoral Bureau analyzed a number of 69 political advertising materials published in the online environment, finding that 39 of them violates the legal provisions in force and must be removed, » the BEC said in a statement.
According to the legislation in force, the conditions that must be fulfilled by the political advertising materials are: to be prepared, edited, processed, placed, promoted, published, distributed and/or broadcast in the election campaign by a political actor; be a written, printed, audio, video or image, regardless of the dissemination environment; to urge the voters directly or indirectly to choose or not to choose, to vote or not to vote an independent candidate or a candidate of a political party, a political alliance, organizations of citizens belonging to national minorities or an electoral alliance.
At the same time, these materials must contain more information, including an indication that it represents a political advertising material; the candidate or the political formation at the request to which or on whose behalf it is prepared, placed, promoted, published, distributed or broadcast the political advertising material, respectively the name and e-mail address, as well as the candidate’s postal address, when it is publicly disclosed by him, or the address of the headquarters; a mention that the political advertising material has been the subject of techniques for targeting a target public or distributing advertising materials.
Other information is: a mention that the amounts spent for the preparation, placement, promotion, publication, distribution or dissemination of political advertising material come exclusively from the sources allowed by Law 334/2006; as the case may be, a mention that the political advertising material has been the subject of an electoral promotion or an electoral promotion; The unique identification code of the financial agent registered with the permanent electoral authority.
