Each broadcaster that will cover the election campaign that will precede the June 14, 2015 local elections will be obliged to weekly submit a report on the electoral broadcast volume to the Broadcasting Coordination Council (BCC). Such a provision is contained in the strategy for covering the election campaign that was adopted by the BCC on April 9, IPN reports.
BCC chairman Dinu Ciocan said that this election campaign will be mainly covered by local broadcasters to whose services and programs the Council does not have direct access. On the basis of these reports, the BCC will examine how the campaign is covered and will react when deviations from the provisions of the regulations concerning the coverage of the election campaign are identified. The report will contain information about electoral videos, debates and advertisements broadcast within special divisions and informative programs, including information about social ads designed by the Central Election Commission.
The broadcasters that will cover the election campaign will present a statement concerning their editorial policy to the BCC. Those that will not cover the election campaign must also inform the Council about this. In the debates on the strategy, the BCC members decided that the broadcasters that will cover the local general elections of June 14 will broadcast the electoral publicity within a special division entitled “Local Elections 2015”. The airtime offered for money to election runners, the electoral advertisements and electoral debate programs will also be included in this division.
The BCC members also discussed the prices asked by the broadcasters for airing electoral ads and are to establish equitable criteria for setting these prices for all the broadcasters that will cover the election campaign.
The Broadcasting Coordination Council will submit the strategy for covering the election campaign that will precede the June 14 local elections to the Central Election Commission, which is to adopt the regulations concerning the coverage of the election campaign.
