II. Comments on the text of the draft law

G. Media and Information Support of Elections

Article 63(1) declares that voters shall be given the possibility to access diverse, objective and unbiased information that is necessary to make a deliberate, informed and free choice. The draft law requires that when distributing information on the election, all election commissions, mass media, governmental institutions and bodies and civic associations, do so in an unbiased, unprejudiced, balanced, reliable, complete and accurate manner. The CEC must approve a procedure and list of activities for providing information to voters on their rights and responsibilities and the ways to exercise and protect these rights no later than on the tenth day following the start of the election process.