on Monday Report it to usThat TV2 news editors said in a video that they would vote for Viktor Urban. Gábor Gönczi and Anikó Marsi, news readers of the semi-state TV channel’s news program, as well as many other faces of the channel, also present Vivien Szalai, news director.
The reaction of Istvan Zelle and Antonia Eros, news presenters at RTL Klub here We wrote in the index that they do not tell who is voting because they are journalists and not propaganda.
One day, the HCLU responded to the matter in a Facebook post. They had already spoken at the beginning of their position four years ago.
We have lodged an objection with TV2 because its hosts will continue to campaign for Viktor Orban in 2022. The same thing happened four years ago, when the National Election Commission imposed a fine of HUF 3,450,000. The current case is the same story and a more serious case.
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TV2 employees’ campaign violates the equal opportunity for candidates required by the election law. In addition, according to the media law that governs elections, journalists are not allowed to speak out about their political views because it is important in news programs that facts are separated from their opinions.
HCLU drew the attention of the NEC to the fact that
The Election Commission must take into account that TV2 employees not only repeated the campaign four years ago, but also did so knowing that it was a crime. It is hard to imagine that the channel and the ruling party will no longer remember that such activity is prohibited. Apparently, both the client and the channel had to calculate the probability that NVB would prove the violation and impose a fine, but this risk was included in the cost of materials up front and it was worth turning it off.
They also stressed that the NVB must also find a way to ensure that its decisions are respected by all, and that the ruling party is no exception.
