The LLRA-KŠS based mostly the criticism on the truth that presents for youngsters – sweets – had been purchased and distributed by the general public group Lithuanian Polish Union, not the get together, and that is an outdated annual custom.
LLRA-KŠS famous that its members of the Seimas who participated within the occasions didn’t make marketing campaign speeches, however it was their obligation to take part and it was not associated to get together affiliation.
VAAT was not satisfied by such arguments: the court docket said that it agreed with the conclusion of the Central Election Fee that the representatives of the LLRA-KŠS and the Polish Union of Lithuania “acted collectively in the course of the election political marketing campaign”.
The court docket notes that the chairman of LLRA-KŠS Waldemars Tomaszewskis (Valdemaras Tomaševskis) can be the top of the Lithuanian Polish Union and the Vilnius district department of the Lithuanian Polish Union, and realizing these connections between authorized entities and the truth that the municipal election marketing campaign is underway, politicians ought to have acted extra cautiously.
In response to the court docket, though the representatives of the LLRA-KŠS and along with the representatives of the Polish Union of Lithuania didn’t discuss in regards to the elections on the Christmas occasions, the get together, realizing its connections with the Polish Union and the truth that the marketing campaign was underway, “ought to have acted prudently and prevented conditions the place the looks of joint motion in the course of the political marketing campaign turns into obvious’.
The choice made by the court docket on the finish of December may be appealed to the Supreme Administrative Courtroom of Lithuania,
The CEC decided in June final yr that the LLRA-KŠS not directly bribed voters with presents for youngsters at Christmas tree-lighting celebrations within the Vilnius district earlier than the then-approaching municipal elections in March.
The CEC famous that the presents for the youngsters – sweets – had been purchased by the Polish Union of Lithuania, which is carefully associated to the LLRA-KŠS: former candidates for the municipal council and the put up of mayor take part within the administration our bodies of the aforementioned group, the organizations are headed by W. Tomaszewskis.
Though the presents had been handed out by employed animators in the course of the occasions, in accordance with the fee, the candidates collaborating in them and making ready for the elections “had been promoted and their consciousness was elevated.”
The Election Code prohibits direct or oblique shopping for of voters’ votes, presents, providers or different remuneration to encourage voters to take part or not take part in elections, to vote for one or one other candidate, and to in any other case affect the need of voters.
Solely the distribution of informational materials – exercise or election program, biography or different info content material leaflets, calendars, postcards, stickers and the like – just isn’t thought of bribery of voters.
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2024-06-21 10:01:28
