State officials and local government officials may, during election campaigns, act as representatives of candidate lists and during their media appearances in electronic public, commercial and non-profit media, they may promote election programmes and candidate lists in a manner and to the extent in which this Law prescribes media presentation of candidate list representatives during election campaigns.

Officials referred to in para.1 of this Article shall be prohibited, during election campaigns, from misusing their media appearances in the capacity of state or other public officials and from using them for advertising a candidate list and/or its electoral programme.