A representative of the National Electoral Commission told Lusa this Sunday that the elections for the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of the Azores took place without any incident and “in the best civil spirit.”
“The elections took place without incident, without problems, in the best civil spirit and without any irregularities in the electoral process,” Fernando Anastasio said in an interview with Lusa.
In the afternoon, the PS/Açores party filed a complaint with the CNE against the regional government president, José Manuel Boleiro, candidate for the post from the PSD/CDU-PP/PPM coalition, alleging that it had violated the ban on propaganda on election day.
The complaint, sent to the CNE by PS/Açores campaign manager Berto Messias, cited “violation of the ban on advertising on election day and within 500 meters of the polling station” and was based on “statements.” live on several TV channels” by José Manuel Bolheiro, head of the list of the district of San Miguel, after he exercised his right to vote.
However, the CNE considered that President Bolheiro’s statements were not “unacceptably outside the bounds of the law” but warned the candidate to refrain from making such comments.
“The content of the answers, in the context of the persistence of the questions asked, does not exceed the limits permitted by law in an unacceptable manner, but the candidate is warned to refrain from making such comments until the polls close,” he reports on CNE’s examination of the PS/Açores complaint, to which Lusa had access .