Tuesday,
March 11, 2008
Italian Candidates Must Campaign Civily !!!
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Keep Attack Ads Clean says Court -'Miserable, Immoral, Sleazy
Charlatan' ruled Offside
ANSA -
March 10, 2008
Using vulgar language to slam
politicians isn't OK even at election time,
Tough criticism is acceptable but not the use of ''extreme language,'' the
highest court of appeals said.
The
The leaflets called the mayor ''a miserable charlatan, power fanatic,
wheeler-dealer and immoral political presence''.
Although these were not in themselves ''highly offensive,'' the Cassation
judges ruled, they assumed the level of ''full-fledged, vulgar defamation''
when accompanied by adjectives such as ''ignoble'' and ''sleazy''.
Criticising an official's term in office was fine,
the court ruled, as long as ''the language doesn't go over the top''.
It cautioned rivals in
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