On Wednesday, the Constitutional Court rejected Levica’s initiative to assess the constitutionality and lawfulness of the Media Agency’s guidelines for the local elections according to which Apasiev’s party is not getting funds for political advertising in the campaign.
As the Court explained, the guidelines are in line with the Electoral Code and represent technical operationalisation of the legal provision.
The institution’s President, Darko Kostadinovski, stated that the initiative had been filed shortly before the start of the election silence period and that the submitter, party leader Dimitar Apasiev, in the capacity of MP, had had the opportunity to initiate legal chances in the previous four years. Also, he called for a greater level of political and academic culture by Apasiev.
In response, however, the party said it would initiate a process before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Levica said that despite being represented in Parliament, it hadn’t been able to get any media space for advertising at all in the election campaign. It even pointed out that it hadn’t been allowed to do so with its own funds.