BEC ordered the removal of over 2,200 electoral materials with illegal content posted online
The headquarters of the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) in Bucharest. Inquam Photos / George Călin
The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) issued, between April 21 and 27, a number of 170 decisions to admit the complaints regarding the election campaign in the online environment, respectively a number of 163 rejection decisions.
According to a statement broadcast on Tuesday, BEC states that, by admission decisions, they were removed:
- a) 1071 political advertising materials with illegal content posted on accounts whose authenticity cannot be verified, the accounts not being assumed by natural or legal persons;
- b) 1048 political advertising materials with illegal content posted by political actors – political formations or persons who hold elective functions or other public functions – or for non -observance of the legal provisions regulating the signaling of political advertising materials, or for other violations of the legislation in the field of the electoral campaign;
- c) 146 political advertising materials with illegal content posted by natural persons who do not have elective functions or other public functions – but who are political actors, with potential for influencing the electorate – or for non -observance of the legal provisions regulating the signaling by the political advertising materials, or for other violations of the legislation in the field of electoral campaign.
The bulb also ordered the removal from an online platform of an audio material that urged the voters to vote for a certain candidate, without the material being reported (labeled) as the electoral propaganda material, by the same decision, the removal of all the photographic or video type materials over which the audio material was overlapping with an illegal content, by corlecting the audio material.
Some BEC decisions, challenged in court
“A number of 28 decisions-under 3% of the total number-adopted by the bulb from the start of the election campaign, on April 4, 2025, either to admit the complaints or rejection, were challenged in court by natural or legal persons, in one situation the court ordering the modification of a BEC decision (of rejecting a complaint and the complication of the complaint), The contested decisions being maintained by the court ”, the BEC statement states on Tuesday.
At the same time, BEC reiterates that both the communications that are circumscribed within the limits of the journalistic activity of informing the public, as well as the public opinions expressed in personal names in the online environment by natural persons “do not constitute political advertising materials and that, in no case, has ordered the removal of such communications or opinions from the online platforms”.
