Since the beginning of the election silence, there have been 15 offences committed across the country, mainly online. Each case is carefully analysed - Deputy Commissioner Iwona Kiev from the Police office on Saturday.
The President's election will be held on Sunday. The election silence began at midnight, at night from Friday to Saturday and will last until Sunday at 9:00 p.m. erstwhile the vote is to be concluded. During the silence of the election, polls and agitators cannot be published.
Deputy Commissioner Iwona Kiev from the Police office told PAP that since the beginning of election silence 15 offences have been reported. She added that they have been committed throughout Poland and that they are mainly offences on the Internet.
"Police officers monitor the network on an ongoing basis, and each of these cases is carefully analysed and transmitted in accordance with the property to the territorial unit in which the data of the offence was committed" - she said.
Members broke the voter silence?
She confirmed that among the reported offences are two Members.
Saturday morning On the Facebook page of Arkadiusz Myrchy's Deputy Justice Minister, there was a graphics encouraging the vote for the candidate he indicated. "We vote on Sunday!" - he wrote in a post. "I'm sorry, as a consequence of the loading mistake they appeared after midnight. I already deleted it. I apologize for the error" - he then wrote Myrch on the X portal.
He besides posted an election post on Saturday morning Piotr Głowski (KO). "The entry concerning the election of the president of Poland, which X published on this page on Saturday 17.05 in the morning - I placed simultaneously with a akin on Facebook - on Friday 16.05 in the evening" - said Głowski on the X portal. "To make certain that individual can interpret it differently - I delete the entry" - he added.
Electoral silence
Electoral silence violates all component of active electoral agitation, that is, public urging or encouraging voting. You can't congregate in silence, organise the proceeds and manifestations, give speeches or distribute election material. Encouraging participation in elections shall be without prejudice to election silence unless it contains elements of electoral agitation for 1 of the candidates.
Posters suspended before the beginning of voting silence request not be removed. However, vehicles with electoral posters must not be driven, but specified vehicles may stand. You can't registry online either.
There is besides a ban on agitation at the polling station where it is located, including the display of symbols, images, signs and inscriptions associated with candidates and election committees.
During the silence of the election, it is prohibited to make the polls public.
Punishments for breaking election silence
For breaking the ban on agitation in silence, he threatens fine. For publishing polls in silence the fine ranges from PLN 500 1000 to PLN 1 million. It concerns both pre-election polls on the projected behaviour of voters, election results and polls on the day of the vote.
The State Electoral Commission points out that only law enforcement authorities and courts can decide whether or not something constitutes a violation of the ban on electoral agitation, and that the voter who considers that the electoral silence has been violated should study this straight to the Police.
PAP
