"Fact" daily writes:
According to the RA Electoral Code, pre-election campaigning strictly ends on the day before the voting day, at 00:01 at night.
In other words, the "day of silence" has already started and will continue tomorrow, the day of voting. The logic behind such a restriction is that voters have at least one day of "silence" to weigh the entire campaign and make a decision.
The law states: "On the day of the vote and the day before it, campaigning through public speeches, public events, mass media, including cable (cable) network, satellite connection and terrestrial broadcasting by audio-visual media service providers, as well as through advertising on the Internet is prohibited."
And what do we really have, and what can we expect in this regard today and tomorrow? At least a few past elections show that this "ban" is losing its meaning and relevance over time. The point is that, first, on the day before the elections, and also on the day of the elections, all pre-election posters are still posted.
Second, it is difficult to follow the full implementation of this prohibition in the entire social network domain, especially since many simply use the serial numbers of political forces to campaign with seemingly innocent texts (eg, I used to jim X times when I was X, etc.).
Thirdly, in the period before the "day of silence" in the same social network domains, advertisements connected to propaganda materials are often still running, and even if they are turned off, the previously published materials (even without advertisements) may reappear in people's "newsfeed" from time to time, and regardless of the will and desire of the publisher of the material, that is, there is not even a question of responsibility here.
Finally, any statement associated with this or that political force by state bodies, including law enforcement, can become a kind of anti-propaganda. Nevertheless, it is clear that today and tomorrow there will be no debates, no meetings, rallies, direct propaganda speeches, which will allow the public to really relax a little from all that.
Details in today's issue of "Past" daily
