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Article 66
 

(Written Campaign Promises)


(1) Every candidate (referring to the political party that recommends its candidate in cases of a candidate recommended by a political party in the presidential election; the same shall apply hereafter in this Article except for paragraphs (2) and (5) ) who runs for a presidential election and for an election of the heads of local government may prepare one kind of printed matter (hereinafter "written campaign promises") in which campaign promises and a promotion plan therefor are entered in order to wage campaign.


<Amended by Act No. 8879, Feb. 29, 2008>


(2) The written campaign promises shall state the campaign promises, the goals, priority order, execution procedures, term of execution and plan for raising fund for each project as a promotion plan therefor, however, shall not state the matters concerning other political parties or candidates. In such cases, the photograph, academic background, and career of the candidate and other matters necessary for publicity in addition to the name and mark of the candidate, his/her campaign promises and the matters concerning the promotion plan therefor may be inserted in not more than one sheet, out of the sheets under paragraph (3).


<Amended by Act No. 8879, Feb. 29, 2008; Act No. 11207, Jan. 17, 2012>


(3) The written campaign promises shall be stated on 32 sheets or less for presidential elections, on 16 sheets or less for the election of the
Mayors/Do Governors, and on 12 sheets or less for the election of the heads of autonomous Gu/Si/Gun.


<Amended by Act No. 8879, Feb. 29, 2008>


(4) The number of written campaign promises shall not exceed 10/100 of the number of households in the relevant constituency.


<Amended by Act No. 8879, Feb. 29, 2008>


(5) Any candidate, his/her family members, election manager, head of election liaison office, election workers, chief accountant and assistants accompanying a candidate may distribute the written campaign promises: Provided, That as for the methods of distributing written campaign promises by mailing (excluding election campaign promises in braille), door-to-door visit or scattering (including a method of keeping in a specific place), they are prohibited.


<Amended by Act No. 8879, Feb. 29, 2008; Act No. 9974, Jan. 25, 2010>


(6) When a candidate intends to distribute written campaign promises, he/she shall report the quantity of the written campaign promises, expenses
incurred in printing the written campaign promises and ways to distribute them, etc. to the competent constituency election commission with two copies of the written campaign promises, and submit two copies of the written campaign promises respectively to the Gu/Si/Gun election commission having the jurisdiction over the area in which they are distributed by no later than the time they are distributed.


<Amended by Act No. 8879, Feb. 29, 2008>


(7) The competent constituency election commission may open to the public written campaign promises by posting them on the Internet homepage of
the election commission, etc. so that voters may obtain knowledge thereof, and may post the written campaign promises of the elected person on the Internet homepage of the election commission or on the Internet homepage designated by the National Election Commission after the elected person is decided. In such cases, the competent constituency election commission may require each of the candidates to submit the copy of his/her electronic data or to submit a summary of such electronic data.


<Amended by Act No. 8879, Feb. 29, 2008>


(8) The provisions of Articles 64 (3) and (8) and 65 (4) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the written campaign promises. In such cases, "campaign posters" or the "booklet-type election campaign bulletins" shall be deemed "campaign promises", "preparation, keeping and submission" shall be deemed "preparation" and "election campaign bulletins in braille" shall be deemed "election campaign promises in braille", respectively, and campaign promises in braille shall be deemed same kind as the written campaign promises.


<Amended by Act No. 9974, Jan. 29, 2010>


(9) The specifications and the indication of the grounds of their preparation, etc. of the written campaign promises, the report thereon, their submission
and other necessary matters shall be prescribed by Regulations of the National Election Commission.


[This Article Newly Inserted by Act No. 8232, Jan. 3, 2007]