How to explain the decisions to delete the posts considered electoral propaganda, including individuals
The BEC announces that it will solve the complaints regarding the online election campaign, and if it finds that the complained materials have illegally contained, it issues to the big platforms decisions to remove them, including in the case of public persons.
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The reaction of the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) comes shortly after requesting the deletion of some Facebook posts by former judge Cristi Dănileț. BEC motivated that the messages published by it represents “Political advertising materials”, and Danileț is “a political actor ”.
In order to correct the public information in relation to the decisions that circumscribe the competence of the bulb, as a relevant authority that may order, by order, that the very high online platforms should act against one or more elements with illegal content, BEC brings a series of clarifications.
“In order to ensure the objectivity, transparency, correctness and integrity of the electoral process, during the election campaign, during the Vote Day for the election of the President of Romania in 2025, as a novelty element, the election legislation states that BEC solves complaints Regarding the online election campaign and, if they find that the complained materials have illegally contained, issues to the big platforms decisions to remove them ”the bulb announces, in a press release.
According to the quoted source, because the public interest is primarily manifested regarding the removal of materials with illegally posted in the online environment by natural persons who do not have elective functions or other public functions, the bulb specifies that “A correct electoral process implies, among other things, a fair balance between freedom of expression, including the right of a person to have political opinions, and guarantee that the information and messages promoted are confined to the desire to prevent the actions of manipulating and misinforming the voters ”.
“In situations in which natural persons who do not have elective functions or other public functions post on personal accounts, opened on very high online platforms, mainly and repetitive-an aspect found directly and directly by the bulb-electoral propaganda materials, then the natural persons acquire the quality of political actors with the potential for influence, in the task, The respective materials for the purpose of warning and informing the public regarding the character of political advertising material of the posting, the lack of proper labeling qualifying the material as having an illegal content ”, explained the bulb.
At the same time, the representatives of the BEC emphasizes that both the communications that are within the limits of the journalistic activity of information of the public, as well as the public opinions expressed in personal name, in the online environment, by natural persons who are not political actors, “They are essential components of the right to information, respectively of the right to free expression, so that in none of the situations circumscribed to these hypotheses and deduced from the BEC analysis, the measure of removal of the posted materials has been ordered.”
“In particular, regarding the complaints that have complained about the online environmental communications by the political actors who hold elective functions or other public functions, the BEC has ruled that, in situations in which the posted materials refer to the way of carrying out the duties in the exercise of the functions held at present or in the past by the candidates, not to vote or not to vote, The respective materials as political advertising materials ”the Central Electoral Bureau also transmitted.
