", penalising "slander" during election campaigns"
This part should be removed since in the finally adopted text of the amendments to the Criminal Code (part of the Electoral package voted in May 2021, effective from January 1, 2022), the proposed Article 154.15 (“Publishing – during the period of election campaign, on the voting day, before the end of the voting, or on the preceding day – false information or slander via information and communication technologies, anonymous source, about a political party (alliance of political parties) or a candidate running in elections, for the purpose of damaging the reputation thereof”) was dropped resulting in implementation of the relevant recommendation made in the VC/OSCE/ODIHR Joint Opinion. The reference may be made to the Follow up procedure to the Joint Opinion CDL-AD(2021)025 of the Venice Commission on this matter.