Ireland: : Political party loses legal challenge over televised leaders’ debate prior to election

• Autores: Ingrid Cunningham
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 4, 2016
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In judicial review proceedings in the High Court, a political party (Green Party) challenged the exclusion of its leader from a televised party leaders’ debate by public service broadcaster RTÉ.

    The applicant (a trustee of the Green Party), sought a declaration that the criteria operated by RTÉ, and in particular the requirement that a party have “at least three sitting members” in the outgoing Dáil Éireann (lower house of Irish parliament) before the leader of that party be invited to participate in the leaders’ debate was unfair, undemocratic and unconstitutional and in breach of RTÉ’s statutory obligations as a public broadcaster under the Broadcasting Act 2009.