UPDATED: KSU Election moratorium breached
13 April 2011 by Editor
It has come to Insite’s attention that the KSU statute has been breached (Taqsima 6, Artiklu 45 – 46) as SDM and ML are promoting their electoral campaign during the one day code of silence.
Electoral Commissioner, Angelo Micallef has spoken to Insite to clarify that
“under the current statute, the moratorium begins at midnight tonight, that is to say, in a couple of hours’ time. All campaigning carried out today is therefore completely legitimate in terms of the statute.”
KSU statute 2010, followed by track changes
ML stand
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April 13th, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Sew u issa xiex?….mhux ha jsiru elezzjonijiet? ha jkun hemm xi tip ta repercussion? jew qijsu qatt ma gara xejn u jsiru xorta ax xi haga ekk probbali gejja.
April 13th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
“f’nofs il-lejl tal-jum ta qabel l-elezzjoni” – Il-moratorium jibda min sebgha sieghat ohra malli jdoqqu nofs il-lejl ta’ llum.
April 13th, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Naqbel ma’ Mario. Jekk l-interpretazzjoni m’hix cara, fil-passat gara kif qed jghid Mario.
April 13th, 2011 at 4:57 pm
The Silent Day starts from tonight at midnight.
April 13th, 2011 at 5:04 pm
dixx
April 13th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
FAIIILL!!
April 13th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Inform the electoral commission.
April 13th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Angelo Micallef, the Head of Electoral Commission was on Campus today…he should know the rules – NISPERA, ghax dan breach of election rules jigu
April 13th, 2011 at 6:16 pm
The statue is rather ambigous regarding this matter, especially with the whole ‘nofs il-lejl’ business. As far as I was taught in primary school ‘nofs il-lejl’ = ‘midnight’ = ’00.00′ = the start of a new day.
Thefore surely ‘nofs il-lejl tal-gurnata ta’ qabel l-elezjoni’ was last night at 00.00?
If this is not the case then this should have definitely been clarified earlier and needs to be clarified in the future.
April 13th, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Well Janet Barthet distributed SDM leaflets a day before the KSU elections a couple of years ago…
April 13th, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Today is the day before the election, meaning therefore that the moratorium starts tonight at midnight. Both parties are acting within the remit of the statute and neither of them should be penalised. It is the title of this article that is grossly misleading to insite’s readers and should be amdended accordinlgy.
April 13th, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Nofs il-lejl tal-gurnata ta’ qabel l-elezzjoni jigi llum….f’nofs il-lejl illejla ma tigix il-jum ta qabel l-elezzjoni imma tigi Election Day
April 13th, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Il-gurnata ta silenzu f’dan il-kaz hija il-gurnata tal-vot! Starting as from 12.00 tonight!
April 13th, 2011 at 8:28 pm
technically speaking the term midnight or ‘nofs il-lejl’ can mean both the start of a said day or the end of said day.
The ISO 8601 which is the international standard for date and time leaves this ambiguity. According to this standard a day has two midnights.
This means that ” f’nofs il-lejl tal-(ġurnata) jum ta’ qabel il-ġurnata tal-elezzjoni” can either mean
a) 13/04/2011 00:00 which was the midnight of 20 hours ago or
b) 13/04/2011 24:00 which is the other midnight of today which will occur in about 4 hours. This time also coincides with 14/04/2011 00:00 which is the midnight of election day.
Seems Angelo Micallef chose the midnight of option b.
http://dotat.at/tmp/ISO_8601-2004_E.pdf