You couldn’t go to vote with shirts that embrace the slogan “That I vote for you Txapote”, because the Central Electoral Board (JEC) has warned. The observe signifies that the electoral laws embrace the “basic prohibition” of taking “electoral propaganda of any form” to the polling stations and voting facilities through the day of the elections.
It is the response of the best electoral regulatory physique, after the Jaén Provincial Police Station alerted of a marketing campaign on social networks during which they had been inspired to go to vote with t-shirts with the slogan “Que te vote Txapote’ and the c defend of the Spanish State”.
In this context, the JEC refers to article 93 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG) that refers back to the “basic prohibition” that voters can carry electoral propaganda when voting. “The use of shirts that incorporate the motto ‘Que te vote Txapote’ should be understood as included within the prohibition established in article 93,” she identified.
For this cause, the JEC recollects that it’s as much as the presidents of the Electoral Tables to make sure that the polling stations and their environment “are freed from symbols that, as a result of their political connotations, may represent electoral propaganda.” Thus, the physique ensures that “they might require the assistance of the Security Forces and Corps to make this prohibition efficient.”
Lastly, the arbitration physique anticipates that this settlement might be transferred to the Provincial Electoral Boards for his or her data and to the Zone Electoral Boards, which should notify the Electoral Tables on the day of the vote.
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