Political parties' pre-election activities are required to comply with law

Political party officials are not reluctant to pay large sums of money to sponsor scriptures, photos and videos on social networks, with which they are occasionally promoting themselves, they are sometimes hitting opponents.

In many videos and scriptures sponsored by party officials are addressing political opponents, avoiding confrontation of ideas and programmes.

Shpend Emin, executive director of the non-governmental organisation “Development Democracy” (D4D), has said political parties should focus more on overcoming the crisis than on spending resources on political propaganda, writes the newspaper “Zri”.

The parties also use offensive language, and this does not match the democratic spirit. The problem also lies in the fact that laws in force, particularly the Law for Elections, do not foresee sanctions for those parties that have begun their campaign yet to officially begin. The parties must host the official campaign and then reveal their programmes to voters”, he has underlined.

And Ernjen Pula, from the Group for Jury and Political Studies (GLPS), has considered that the indicators for campaigning prior to the official start of the election campaign by political parties are in full opposition to the Kosovo General Election Law, as this law specifys the election campaign period during which parties can hold political campaign activities. “

All political parties' activities to convey a political message about elections should be in accordance with the law in force, meaning over the period of 30 days, which ends a day before election day”, it has declared.