Braga group forbidden to use T-shirts to combat abstention
A group of Braga, called the Citizenship Movement against Indifference, complained that it was this Sunday forbidden by the National Elections Commission (CNE) to use, Saturday and today, T-shirts with calls to the polls.
« The appeal we do on the t-shirts is all identical to what we did yesterday (Saturday) the President of the Republic and what they are doing today the various party leaders. The CNE itself has published in the newspapers an advertisement in everything identical. It is only and only an appeal to the polls, in the context of a campaign against the abstention that we have been developing, » said Paulo Sousa, in statement, in statement To Lusa.
At stake are a t-shirt where you can read: « On the 18th, do like me. Vote. » On the back, read « vote is our power. Fight abstention. »
According to the CNE, the eve and election day, « the law prohibits any kind of electoral propaganda, even indirect. »
Thus, taking into account the context (eg, a person associated with a particular candidacy or political ideology, association with slogans used by applications) ”, T-shirts could be interpreted“ as an attempt to influence vote ”and thus violate electoral law.
