Judges to stop abuses of Candidates for 10 May Elections using Public Power

The political parties which participate in the parliamentary elections, launched on Sunday a forced period of rest that will continue beyond the elections, pursuant to the election law, which prevents leaders and candidates of these parties from making statements to the media or go out in groups or just contact the population, because this falls ‭within the ‭ ‬‬electoral propaganda ‭which ended its legal deadline. ‬

The organic law of the elections explaines accurately the campaign period, which lasts according to Article 188 of the text of the law 21 days, and is open before 25 days of the date of the polls, and ending three days prior to the date of the election. The Article 189 prevents candidates to continue in any way the election campaign outside the specified period, and is intended, according to an expert in the constitutional law, Bouzid Azhari, to organize gatherings and festivals, saying that the legislator, when banning candidates to continue the campaign during the three days preceding the elections, he intended to let the voters amassing their views and attitudes in preparation for the day of the elections and the choice between candidates who are entitled to vote in their favor.

For his part, Head of the Association of Human Rights, Boudjemaa Ghachir, said in a statement to Echorouk, that the law prevents the exercise of all types of the propaganda for the campaign following the expiration of the stage of the campaign, including rallies and statement to the media in various titles, publishing and broadcasting explore the views and to explore the views of the electorate to vote and to measure the popularity of candidates before 72 hours of polling day, as illustrated by article 194, it also prevents law work slaves and the distribution of pamphlets or brochures or just friction with the general population for electoral purposes.