The plenary of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) ordered political parties to suspend political campaigning prior to the opening of the 2019 electoral campaign period. The campaign opening date for pre-candidate campaigns is 7 July 2019.
This is not the first time the JCE orders a stop to pre-mature electoral campaigning.
The measure is adopted through Resolution #10-2019. “The Central Electoral Board reserves the right, once the disposed measures have been taken and the appropriate verifications have been made, to determine any non-compliance with the present decision, to act in accordance with Electoral Regime Law 15-19 and Political Parties Law 33-18 before the competent instance for the violation of the present decision,” states the resolution.
The plenary of the JCE indicated that the actions of some political parties and pre-candidates have exceeded the essence and activities allowed during the pre-campaign, with the performance of acts that have become notoriously multitudinous demonstrations and that transgress public order.
The parties are also convened to a meeting with the plenary on 29 May 2019.
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JCE
23 May 2019