The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) issued 170 decisions of admission of complaints regarding the electoral campaign in the online environment and 163 decisions of rejection between April 21-24.
According to the BEC, the decisions of admission were taken against:
* 1,071 political advertising materials with illegal content posted on accounts whose authenticity cannot be verified, as the accounts were not assumed by individuals or legal entities;
* 1,048 political advertising materials with illegal content posted by political actors – political parties or persons holding elective or other public offices – either for failure to comply with the legal provisions regulating the labeling of political advertising materials or for other violations of electoral campaign legislation;
* 146 political advertising materials with illegal content posted by individuals who do not hold elective or other public offices – but who are political actors with the potential to influence the electorate – either for failure to comply with the legal provisions regulating the labeling of political advertising materials, or for other violations of the electoral campaign legislation.
BEC has also ordered the removal from an online platform of an audio material that urged voters to vote for a certain candidate, without the material being labeled as electoral campaign material, by the same decision ordering the removal of all photo or video material over which the audio material with illegal content was superimposed, at the date of the decision as many as 938 such posts with illegal content resulting from the audio material overlay having been reported.
„A total of 28 decisions – less than 3% of the total number – adopted by the BEC since the start of the electoral campaign on April 4, 2025, either to admit complaints or to reject them, were challenged in court by individuals or legal entities, in only one case the court ordered the modification of a BEC decision (to reject a complaint) in order to admit the complaint and to remove two political advertising materials, the rest of the contested decisions being upheld by the court,” reads a BEC press release, signed by BEC President Cristinel Grosu, sent to AGERPRES on Tuesday.
BEC reiterates that both the communications that fall within the limits of journalistic activity of informing the public, as well as the public opinions expressed in a personal name online by individuals who are not political actors do not constitute political advertising materials and that, in any case, it has not ordered the removal of such communications or opinions from the very large online platforms.
AGERPRES
