In recent years, elections – whether local, legislative or presidential – have taken place one after the other, leaving little room to think about anything else. Now that none are in sight anytime soon, stay axis approxrtazes which, in some cases (municipal, for example), remain there is months. Could parties, or candidates, be fined? SIC Verifies.
On the roads and streets of several municipalities it is not difficult to find propaganda relating to elections, even if they have already taken place weeks, or even months.
Following this repair, a spectator questioned o SIC Checks whether parties or candidates should not remove the posters left after the elections and if the act of don’t remove them no would imply sanctions.
“It is up to the municipal councils, after hearing interested parties, to define the deadlines and conditions for removing the advertising media used”reads article 6 da Lei n.º 97/88.
Furthermore, the – regarding the removal of advertising posted on the central axis of Avenida da República, between Praça de Entrecampos and Praça do Duque de Saldanha, in Lisbon -, which There is no fixed legal deadline for the removal of party posters after the end of the election campaign.
As rules on the posting and removal of these materials within public spaces they are not limited within a period defined in the national electoral lawas is still clear on the CNE website.
“To her does not provide any deadline for candidates to remove outdated electoral propaganda”, indica-with.
Therefore, the responsibility for their removal lies with whoever placed them and may be subject to municipal regulations on space occupation and urban cleaning, but, how to clarify CNE to SIC Check, “no deadline is established for the removal of advertising”, that is, the same “It’s free all the timeso There is no provision for monetary or other sanctions”.
Still, it is It is common for citizens and municipalities to want posters to be removed quickly, an express desire, for exampleit, for a group of residents of the capital who delivered a petition to the City Council with the aim of putting an end to this problem. The petition, in the form of a petition, asked one .
As rules of municipal regulations also cannot “override the right to freedom of expression”, as the CNE clarified to the in September 2025, as part of the municipal elections.
Now, in the absence of an express prohibition, a deadline or a superior decision from a court, for example, there is no fine.
SIC verifies that it is…
Portuguese electoral legislation does not provide for fines for parties (or candidates) that they do not remove propaganda posters after the elections. It is up to the municipal councils to define deadlines and conditions for removal, as clarified by the National Elections Commission, but there is no electoral rule that stipulates a limit. That’s why, there is no fine.
