The Electoral Affairs Commission for the Legislative Assembly Election (CAEAL) ordered a media outlet to remove from its online edition an interview with a candidate to the Legislative Assembly elections.
The CAEAL noted in a letter to weekly publication “Plataforma” that the interview with José Luís Pedruco Achiam, who is listed on 12th position on the New Union for Macau’s Development, was not permitted by law. The notification came at a time when the interview was been already published for a period of over one week.
Candidates are required, during the period between August 2 and September 2, to remove from the Internet all content considered to be “electoral propaganda.”
The newspaper responded to the order by claiming that CAEAL is “confusing concepts” that clashes in between “the right to inform” and “propaganda.” RM
