Electoral Video Banned Over King's Hunting Photo

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Spain's Central Electoral Commission has banned an animal rights party's campaign video which featured a photograph of King Juan Carlos during an elephant hunt.

According to the EFE news agency, the commission reviewed the video in response to a request for clearance by the television station Telemadrid.

The video, which is part of the PACMA animal rights party's campaign for the European elections on May 25, includes a series of images meant to depict cruelty toward animals, including bullfighting and a photograph of the king and another hunter posing in front of a dead elephant.

The electoral commission said that "under no circumstances" could the image of the head of state be used as part of an electoral campaign. 

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