PVDA è il più grande inserzionista online all’inizio del periodo di “silenzio elettorale”.

>But the problem, according to the professor, runs deeper. “We have to ask ourselves where parties get that money from. Then it quickly becomes clear that the real problem lies with party funding. Our parties have so much money that it seems like the ‘Election silence’ period has lost its usefulness.”

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>”It used to be that parties spent the most money in the pre-election period, but now for several years there has been a permanent campaign. People rarely get convinced a week before the election by an ad they see on Instagram. They often know long in advance who they want to vote for and are constantly shown online ads from their party of choice.”

Question, but are these numbers really accurate? PVDA is a national party, and nowhere in the article are any hard numbers made available. To me, it seems pretty logical that a party that advertises on twice the scale, also has bigger expenditures? I’m pretty sure a national party only has one bankaccount, so these numbers might not tell the whole story?

>Vooral voor de partijen aan de marges van ons politiek spectrum, Vlaams Belang en PVDA, wil dit zeggen dat zij dus veel minder in staat zijn om hun boodschap bij de kiezer te krijgen.

This is the key issue, to me at least. You can’t fault these parties for using the means they have available in order to get their message out. Without direct info from all parties, democracy can’t work.