29.1 Citizens of the Republic of AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Republic, candidates for member of a municipalityMunicipal Council, their advocates, political parties and initiatives groups of voters, may conduct election campaigns without any obstruction. According to the 47th article of the Constitution of the Republic of AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Republic, the abovementioned persons and mass media are free to conduct election campaigns.
29.2 The following organizations and persons are prohibited from conducting election campaigns, and from distributing and publicising election campaign materials and from propagandising on behalf of candidates for member of a municipality:
State government bodies, municipalitiesmunicipal bodies, and their officials;
military units, military enterprises, officers and organizations;
religious organizations;
members of election commissions.
29.3 The election campaign begins from the date the candidates are registered and finishes at midnight (24:00) on the day prior to election day.
29.4 All types of election campaigning are prohibited on election day.
Posters and other election campaign materials may stay in the places they have been hung and affixed, except in rooms used by election commissions.
29.65 Election campaigns can be conducted by:
mass media;
conducting pre-election mass activities such as election meetings, meetings with the voters, open debates, discussions, meetings, rallies and other activities;
producing and distributing printed materials;
distributing audiotape and other campaign materials
other forms not prohibited by the law.
29.76 It is prohibited for election campaigning to include giving away goods or services for free (except information services) or selling them at a discount, or the payment of money to citizens.
29.87 Candidates for member of a municipality or their advocates who are officials of the mass media, or election commission members who are journalists, are prohibited from conducting election campaigns in the mass media by which they are employed.
