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On Wednesday, PSD filed a complaint with the CNA requesting that the institution give a decision to guide broadcasters by which President Klaus Iohannis’ interventions should be properly calculated within the broadcast time granted to the National Liberal Party.
What is written in the PSD complaint to the CNA:
- The live of President Klaus Iohannis, under the pretext of celebrating a year since the 2019 presidential elections, was broadcast on an informational program, not an election program, and the broadcast material does not present activities of the president, but open electoral messages. direct, in favor and in favor of the National Liberal Party, but clearly denigrating another electoral competitor, in this case the subscribed political entity PSD.
- In addition, in this context, we highlight that the elements under analysis are all the more serious since the fundamental law (art. 80 of the Constitution) expressly prohibits the President from participating in the electoral campaign, by excluding him from the sphere of political affiliation, being his role is eminently the mediator.
- At the same time, through this live intervention Mr. Klaus Iohannis has made it difficult for the broadcasters, as a seemingly informative program about the president’s work suddenly became an electoral program, which prevented from fulfilling its obligations through documents submitted to the NAC on how the campaign reflects on the calendar. choice.
- Klaus Iohannis’ speech is clearly electoral propaganda material, considering that, within the meaning of Law 334/2006 on financing the activity of political parties and electoral campaigns, the propaganda material is defined by art. 36, para. (7) as follows:
- However, note that the president’s speech cumulatively meets all these conditions listed above, respectively, it refers directly to both the National Liberal Party (in a positive sense) and the PSD in a negative sense, it is used in full election campaign, It has a declared electoral objective (to win the parliamentary elections for the National Liberal Party) and clearly exceeds the objective of informing the public.
- Through the live intervention of President Klaus Iohannis, he obtained, in fact, illegally, for the National Liberal Party, additional airtime for electoral broadcasts, in violation of art. 8 paragraph 3 of Decision NAC no. 603 of October 21, 2020.
- By broadcasting President Klaus Iohannis’ speech campaigning for the National Liberal Party, the party illegally gained additional time to broadcast election propaganda materials, circumventing mandatory rules to establish specific assigned segments.
- President Klaus Iohannis’ speech endangered the constitutional order, thus violating art. 8 paragraph 2 letter a) of NAC Decision no. 603/2020.
- Contrary to both the demands of a democratic society and his constitutional prerogatives, Mr. President campaigns against the National Liberal Party and denigrates another electoral competitor, in this case the PSD, directly conveying the message that the PSD should no longer participate more in political life and must disappear.
- Through the president’s speech, evidently biased and false messages against the PSD were disseminated in the public space, which flagrantly violate both the constitutional order and the audiovisual legislation, as we have previously shown.
- The holding of free and fair elections can only take place in the context of respect for democratic values as a whole, which include the non-participation of the president in the electoral campaign and the prohibition of defamatory messages to competitors.
