Constitutionalist: the Election Silence Provision Should Be Changed – It Is Outdated

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS. The government’s proposal to use public resources to compensate the people who deposited their savings in the company Koriun Inversiones, has been strongly questioned by the Association for a Fairer Society (ASJ), which warns that this action could constitute a serious illegality. Nelson Castañeda, ASJ’s director of security, [...]

“If you send this bill, we see with great doubt that the deputies want to risk committing a crime or exposing themselves to civil or criminal prosecution for approving illegal things,” the constitutionalist warned. The Constitutionalist entry warns deputies about illegality in payment with public funds to Koriun contributors was first published in the Digital Process.

The regulation, which assumes that election silence applies 24 hours before the voting day, should be changed – assessed constitutionalist Dr. Anna Rakowska from the University of Lodz. This regulation is outdated, unfortunate – she emphasized. Election silence should be maintained, but in a reasonable form – she added. Dr. Anna Rakowska emphasized in an interview with PAP that "today it is very difficult to maintain election silence, because we…