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AVALOS BARRENO, Iván Rodrigo. The affectation to the human right to receive truthful information caused by politicians in their electoral campaigns. Ius Humani [online]. 2020, vol.9, n.1, pp.45-60. ISSN 1390-7794.  https://doi.org/10.31207/ih.v9i1.219.

In Ecuador it is common to observe how politicians every certain time communicate with all the citizens throughout huge advertising campaigns in order to achieve a public sector position; this paper analyzes the meaning of the right to receive truthful information, using the induction method from the legal political advertising phenomenon to obtain general premises so that the voter receives quality information and don’t be fooled by the candidate. The right to receive information is the porpoise of the first chapter, then continue with the political information in Ecuador, subsequently the veracity information is analyzed, culminating with the diagnostic of some campaign proposals never fulfilled. This paper concludes that the political information that deceives the citizen is publicized due to lack of state regulation, which causes an infringement of the citizens’ rights to receive truthfully and verified information in the political campaign.

Palabras clave : Truthful Information; Politic Campaign; Electoral Offers; Right to Information; Informative Diligence.

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