Lawmaker Francisco De Narváez said that claims by the Justicialist Party (PJ in Spanish) against the opposition’s electoral campaign launched prior to the legal term responds to an “authoritarian government that does not want to discuss ideas.”
“Freedom is what is at stake and if they take freedom of expression away from us, they take away our liberty. This is a government that despises (the fact) that I can give my opinion under the margins of law,” De Narváez affirmed.
Earlier this week, PJ and Victory Front attorney-in-fact Jorge Landau lodged a complaint to Judge María Servini de Cubría against the political parties of Francisco De Narváez, Margarita Stolbizer, Gerónimo «Momo» Venegas y Mauricio Macri considering they are running political adds outside the legal electoral timeframe.
Progressive Front MP Gerardo Milman also blasted the government’s move and said Landou “should have self-denounced himself since there are more than enough banners and graffiti of Victory Front’s candidates across the country” and targeted the public funds he said the administration of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner “uses in football and pro-government media.”
Landou’s based the official complaint on radio and street advertising by De Narváez showing the slogan “You or her» –with “her” referring to President Fernández de Kirchner- and included also political banners supporting the candidacy of PRO Carlos Melconian in the province of Buenos Aires.
The same legislation establishing primary, open, mandatory and simultaneous elections in Argentina, regulates as well electoral campaigns that are set to begin only 30 days before the elections while media political advertising can only start 20 days prior to the voting.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald