BULB. How can the party without candidate express their public support

The Central Electoral Bureau said on Wednesday that the party that does not have its own candidate cannot make political advertising materials that urge the voters to vote or vote one or more electoral competitors, but can publicly express their support by messages to members and supporters of the formation.

BEC has transmitted clarifications to inform the people interested in the way in which a political party who does not have the capacity of electoral competitor can support an election competition for the election of the President of Romania ‘.

‘The political party that does not have the quality of electoral competitor (did not propose a candidate) cannot make own political advertising materials such as posters, brochures, leaflets and other printed materials, electoral propaganda in the written press, video or audio materials, regardless of the dissemination, which does not exhort, Funded from the party’s own funds or made in its own direction, but can publicly express its support for one of the candidates in the electoral race through messages addressed to the party members and supporters’, the BEC statement said.

According to the bulb, the members of the political party who does not have the capacity of electoral competitor can freely express their opinion on a candidate.

‘Identifying the political opinions expressed with personal title should normally result from individual self -determination, but contextual elements can be taken into account, of the nature of those stated in consideration (30) of the preamble to Regulation 2024/900’, the source mentioned.

At the same time, the bulb shows that ‘a political opinion is not considered to be expressed with a personal title if a specific remuneration is provided by third parties, including benefits in nature, or in connection with the expression of the respective opinion’.

‘The messages addressed to the party members and supporters, as well as the opinions expressed in personal name do not require labeling, according to the Decision of the Permanent Electoral Authority no. 9/2025. At the same time, a party that does not have the capacity of electoral competitor and, therefore, was not attributed by the permanent electoral authority a financial agent (CMF) for the presidential elections of 2025 cannot use the CMF of an electoral competitor ‘, BEC transmits.