The right to free elections incorporates the right to vote and the right to stand for election. Moreover, it also entails a positive obligation on the member states to ensure conditions under which people can freely form and express their opinions and choose their representatives. This obligation is of utmost importance with regard to the (un)disrupted communicative context of elections. The right to free elections provides that member states “undertake to hold free elections at reasonable intervals by secret ballot, under conditions which will ensure the free expression of the opinion of the people in the choice of the legislature”, which indicates that the rights to freedom of expression and to free elections are prerequisites of each other. This interpretation was reaffirmed by the ECtHR in stating that “free elections and freedom of expression, particularly freedom of political debate, together form the bedrock of any democratic system”.