Examples of European election in a sentence
A person who incurs expenditure on behalf of a European election candidate without being authorised to do so, may be guilty of an offence.
Likewise, where the European election candidate intends to promote a local election candidate in a local electoral area in their promotional literature, this should be authorised by the local election candidate in question.
A local election candidate, Director of Elections, etc., who intends to include a reference to a European election candidate in local election promotional material, advertising, etc., must be authorised to do so by the European election candidate's election agent or the national agent of the European election candidate's political party.
This was made apparent, for instance, during the European election campaign, where a number of the debates involving candidates were not visible in some Member States because of systematic geo-blocking by the producers of these debates.
A political party incurring expenditure at a local election is advised to make European election agents aware of any expenditure it is likely to incur on behalf of candidates and that party in connection with the European election.
Likewise, where a European election candidate mentions a local election candidate in their promotional literature, this is also considered as expenditure incurred on behalf of the local election candidate.
These challenges should be addressed as a priority issue, guided by the recommendations of the European election observation missions.
If the value of the expenditure is less than €126.97, and is borne by the European election candidate, it will be regarded as a minor election expense, and should be treated as such when the local election candidate is submitting their election expenses statement to the relevant local authority.
Where a European election candidate is featured in local election material or advertising which is used during the election period, the extent to which he/she is featured should be used as a basis for calculating the amount of expenses deemed to have been incurred on behalf of the European election candidate.
Where a political party's local election campaign or its local election candidates are featured in European election material or advertising which is used during the election period, the extent to which the local election is featured should be used as a basis for calculating the amount of expenses deemed to have been incurred on behalf of the party or local election candidates.