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Refusing to respond to a candidate’s request whether playing a Kurdish song in his election campaign was an offense did not limit or affect the effectiveness of his voting rights

1st P - Article 3
21/11/2020 17:20

JUDGMENT
Ahmet Yavuz Yılmaz v. Turkey 10.11.2020 (app. no. 48593/07)
Right to be elected. Possibility to play a Kurdish song in the election campaign of a candidate for MP.
The applicant is a lawyer and run in the national elections. He applied to the Electoral Council of his district to clarify if he could play a Kurdish song in his election campaign and if it was illegal, because the election law provided that the election campaign could only take place in Turkish, the The Supreme Court had ruled that the reproduction of a Kurdish song was not illegal. The Council replied that it had no jurisdiction to respond.

Arbitrary exclusion of a party 3 days before the parliamentary elections due to alleged use of undeclared foreign funds. Violation of the right to stand for elections

1st P - Article 3
05/08/2020 07:28

JUDGMENT Political Party “Patria” and others v. Republic of Moldova 04.08.2020 ( app. no. 5113/15, 14963/15, 15910/15) see here SUMMARY Right to be elected and to ensure equal and fair conditions for all candidates in an election campaign. Exclusion of a party three days before the parliamentary elections due to alleged use of undeclared foreign […]

Prohibition of minority participation in national elections. Violation of the right to free elections and the right to non-discrimination

1st P - Article 3
25/03/2020 18:00

JUDGMENT Cegolea v, Romania 24.03.2020 (no. 25560/13) see here SUMMARY Minorities and the right to free elections. A legal representative of an institution representing the Italian minority in Romania claimed to have been discriminated against over the right to vote in the parliamentary elections of 09.12.2012. The institution of which he was a member and […]

Mobile phone application for photographing and disseminating invalid ballots online and the freedom of expression

Article 10
22/01/2020 18:50

JUDGMENT Magyar Kétfarkú Kutya Párt v. Hungary 20.01.2020 (no. 201/17) (GRAND CHAMBER) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a political party’s mobile application which allowed voters to photograph, anonymously upload and comment on invalid votes cast during a referendum on immigration in 2016. The Court found in particular that the provision of domestic election law […]

elections

Refusing to respond to a candidate’s request whether playing a Kurdish song in his election campaign was an offense did not limit or affect the effectiveness of his voting rights

Arbitrary exclusion of a party 3 days before the parliamentary elections due to alleged use of undeclared foreign funds. Violation of the right to stand for elections

Prohibition of minority participation in national elections. Violation of the right to free elections and the right to non-discrimination

Mobile phone application for photographing and disseminating invalid ballots online and the freedom of expression

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