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The municipality will prohibit campaigning in public institutions

There will be no pictures from Halsnæs Municipality of smiling statsministerkandidater on his knees between kindergarten students or he in sympathetic talk with

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The municipality will prohibit campaigning in public institutions

There will be no pictures from Halsnæs Municipality of smiling statsministerkandidater on his knees between kindergarten students or he in sympathetic talk with the elderly in nursing homes, when valgkampene to folketings - and the European parliamentary Elections enters the last three weeks. the
Municipality of today must take a position on a new set of guidelines for election campaign on municipal institutions and put up for the political curfew in the campaign atmosphere completion. It writes Frederiksborg Amts Avis.

- The last part of an election campaign is intense, and there are many candidates who want to profile, but it must not be at the expense of employees or users of the municipal institutions, says Steffen Jensen (S), mayor of the Halsnæs Municipality. the
But even though the Halsnæs Municipality's intentions are good, so are the guidelines problematic. It believes Roger Buch, chief scientist at the Danish school of Media and journalism in Aarhus, denmark and an expert in local politics, parties and elections.

- There are good intentions in protecting the employees in an election campaign, but it is problematic when it is done by restricting both freedom of expression and mødefrihed. Then you go in and pills at something fundamental and, in principle, by a democracy. The question is whether one head may prohibit visits from folketingspolitikere, said Roger Buch.

In november last year ruled Ankestyrelsen, that you can't prevent a sitting municipal councillors to visit the municipal institutions, up to a choice. The decision makes no mention of the folketingspolitikere.

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