The Electoral Board of San Cristóbal de La Laguna has upheld the claim of the PSOE, ordering the El Rosario City Council to withdraw institutional advertising from its website and official social networks. The Rosariero consistory must eliminate publications that exalt the management of the government group IR-Verdes-Sí se puede for violating the principles of objectivity and transparency of the electoral process.
The PSOE presented, this past Monday 24, before the Electoral Board of the Zone, a complaint estimating that it was making use of the website and the official social networks of the City Council (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube) to launch publications of the actions and achievements of the current government, breaching, in such a way, the principles of impartiality and equality that must be met during an electoral process, and may directly affect the intention to vote of the residents of the municipality.
The Electoral Board communicated this past Wednesday, April 26, that “it is appropriate to request the El Rosario City Council for the imminent withdrawal of the website, as well as its social networks, of the content denounced in the PSOE letter.” In addition, it urges the Rosariero consistory “to refrain from making, in the future, publications of similar or equivalent content.”
In addition, the Electoral Board recalls in this regard that “in accordance with the provisions of art. 50.2 of the LOREG, from the time the elections are called and until they are held, any act organized or financed, directly or indirectly, by the public authorities that contains allusions to achievements or achievements, or that uses images is prohibited. and expressions that coincide or are similar to those used in their own campaigns by any of the political entities participating in the elections”.
The head of the PSOE El Rosario list, Ángela Gil, has expressed her satisfaction with the resolution of the Electoral Board: “The current government group makes electoral use of the City Hall’s media. He is using the resources and public money of the rosarieros and rosarieras to sell their management, a very dirty practice during an electoral process. A new pufo of the government group IR-Verdes-Sí puede remains uncovered with the ruling of the Electoral Board”.
