Huge fines for campaigning on election and silence days

If caught campaigning on Tuesday, July 28, and Wednesday, July 29, people may get fined up to 1,000 lei. Under the Election Code, on the day and the eve of the elections, no campaigning is allowed. Only urging people to go and vote is allowed, Info-Prim Neo reports. The fine for electioneering on these days is 200-400 lei for natural persons and 800-1,000 lei for legal entities, specified Tudor Capatana, a press officer with the General Police Commissariat. According to him, all the street advertising was removed till midnight, on Monday. “The police supervised the removal of electoral posters and billboards from over 500 streets of Chisinau”, he said.