Another Necessary Reform
Jul 13, 2017 News
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Given all the entrenched habits and current forms of electoral politics, not even the introduction of compulsory voting might not be enough because maybe it would only increase the market for the purchase of votes and even more expensive exercise of an activity must be noble and should be framed only in terms of ideological debate. So we have been proposing further reform needed in our political and electoral system which should include measures to purge the political, significantly reduce the cost of campaigns, keep walking towards full funding of campaigns by the state and to correct several that are occurring throughout the electoral debates. The first should be to reduce the time duration of the campaigns than two months (1 month for consultations) with the prohibition of making any kind of political advertising and election propaganda out of this period. There should be a maximum of advertising space and regional institutional and Local fully paid by the state. The campaigns for President of the Republic, governors and mayors should have access to a maximum of advertising space and institutional spaces of radio and television paid for by the state, for candidates of parties, movements and significant groups of citizens whose application meets the requirements of seriousness for the purpose by the law.
Dealers of the frequencies of radio and newspapers to acquire or renew the appropriate license should be required to spend free political advertising during the duration of the campaign. Transportation on Election Day should be free. At the time of the allocation of quota or license of transport should impose an obligation on the respective carrier to provide the service on election day for free. In order to reduce the costs of election campaigns should be prohibited with distinctive T-shirt campaign, election propaganda fencing of any type, electoral propaganda murals within the urban or rural area of any municipality, as well as propaganda on stones, rocks and trees, the electoral propaganda parades, banners and posters, except those that are displayed in offices, homes private or business premises and private vehicles, the famous town criers election (which today are nothing more than an open purchase of votes), except for a maximum of one or two of them meet the permitted information booths (maximum one or two houses per post voting), the rental of more than a headquarters and an office for the municipality, etc. For the financing of campaigns could use the formula to establish the maximum limits of the state funding and disburse the amount sufficient to pay all campaign costs recorded in the accounts with their respective media, less the value of donations..
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