Electoral campaign

1. The authority who has called an election in the exercise of its legal responsibilities may launch during the election period a campaign of an institutional nature designed to inform citizens on the polling date, the voting procedure and the conditions and arrangements for postal voting,provided that such campaign does not seek to influence the electors’ vote. This institutional publicity operation shall be conducted by free-of-charge spots in publicly-owned masscommunications
media in the territorial area of the election process, provided such spots are sufficient to attain the campaign goals.

2. From the call to the holding for the election, public authorities are forbidden from directly or indirectly organizing or financing any event that may contain allusions to achievements or accomplishments or use images or expressions identical or similar to those used in their own campaigns by any of the political formations concurring in the election. 

3. It shall equally be forbidden during said period to organize any event for the inauguration of public works or services or projects thereof, whatever the denomination may be given to it. Provided that nothing in this subsection shall may prevent such works or services from coming
into operation.

4. For the purposes of this Act electoral campaign means all lawful activities carried out by candidates, parties, federations, coalitions or electors’ groupings in order to gain votes. 

5. Except as provided in subsection 1 of this Section, no body corporate other than those mentioned in the preceding subsection may conduct an electoral campaign as from the date of calling of the election, without prejudice to section 20 of the Constitution3.

 1. AS AMENDED BY SECT. 2 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 13/1994, OF MARCH 30
 2 AND 3 ADDED BY SECT. 19 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 2/2011, OF JANUARY 28
 4. AND 5. RENUMBERED BY SECT.19 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 2/2011, OF JANUARY 28. FORMER
2 AND 3 RESPECTIVELY

3 Sect. 20 of Const. proclaims freedom of expression, of literary and artistic creation and of masscommunications
media and explicitly bans previous censorship of these media.