Thanks! It seems to be a bit of a telephone game between the question, reply and this article. No? I read it as Google wanting political parties to explicitly

Thanks! It seems to be a bit of a telephone game between the question, reply and this article. No? I read it as Google wanting political parties to explicitly register themselves and to use proper email authentication. Then if they start enforcing it, they can't be blamed being biased (again!). It's not that they are asking if they may let political spam trough, they want accountability from senders and freedom to mark it as spam based on "user consent". Maybe I'm looking at this too positively but to me it sounds very convenient to Google's spam filters.