The Broadcasting Coordination Council (BCC) endorsed a bill that bans political publicity in other periods than the electoral ones. A relevant decision was taken in the April 10 meeting of the Council, IPN reports.

BCC member Nicolae Damaschin considers the congratulations by politicians, broadcast on different occasions, about which the bill says nothing, can also be considered political messages. His colleague Mariana Onceanu-Hadarca said they are definitely political messages because they are uttered by politicians and contain the name and emblem of political parties.

Other members of the Council said the MPs, before adopting the bill, should review this aspect as it is within their competence. They even proposed a definition for audiovisual political publicity so as to prevent the notion from being interpreted. According to the BCC, audiovisual political publicity is any form of verbal or visual message that presents the conceptual ideas of a political party or of a political person.