Offences relating to electoral propaganda

1. Persons having committed one of the following offences shall be liable to a term of imprisonment from three months to one year or to a coercive fine from six months to twenty-four months:

a) Engaging in propaganda activities after expiry of the time-limit for the electoral campaign;
b) Breaking the legal rules on election billboards and space allotted to them, as well as on and other public events for electoral propaganda.

2. Members in active service of the Armed Forces and State Security Forces, of local and Self-Governing Communities, police forces and judges, magistrates and members of the Public Attorney’ Office (Fiscales) as well as of Electoral Commissions who disseminate electoral propaganda or carry out other electoral campaign activities, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment from six months to two years and a coercive from six months to one year.

 SECT. 144 AS AMENDED BY SECT. 43 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 2/2011, OF JANUARY 28