[Opinion] BEC explains under what conditions the posts of individuals on social media are considered electoral propaganda materials

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The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) announced on Tuesday that in situations where individuals post electoral propaganda materials on their personal accounts, opened on very large online platforms, predominantly and repetitively, then they acquire the quality of political actors with the potential to influence the electorate and the obligation of the owners of the posts to label the respective materials in order to alert and correctly inform the p…

The Central Electoral Bureau says that individuals who frequently post electoral propaganda materials on their personal accounts on social media platforms acquire the status of political actors with the potential to influence the electorate and must label their posts. However, situations in which the posted materials refer to the way in which candidates perform their duties in the exercise of their current or past positions, without containing a…