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Article 117
 

(1) The election agents shall assist and represent the interests of the candidates on the candidate lists of the parties, coalitions and nomination committees in dealings with the central and local government authorities, the public organisations and the election commissions.


(2) The election agent shall enjoy freedom of expression and shall be free to canvass, whether orally and in writing, at campaign meetings, as well as through the media service providers.


(3) (Amended and supplemented, SG No. 39/2016, effective 26.05.2016) Eligibility for registration as election agent shall be limited to persons who have attained the age of 18 years, are not interdicted, do not serve a custodial sentence, and have not been convicted of an intentional publicly prosecutable offence.


(4) The total number of election agents of each candidate list of a party, coalition and nomination committee may not exceed the number of voting sections in the respective constituency (district).


(5) The total number of election agents abroad of each candidate list of a party and coalition and of a nomination committee upon elections of National Representatives, of President and Vice President of the Republic and of Members of the European Parliament for the Republic of Bulgaria may not exceed the number of voting sections abroad.


(6) Any single candidate list may be represented by a single election agent in any single voting section on polling day. Upon elections of municipal councillors and of mayors, the candidate lists for municipal councillors and for mayors of one and the same party or coalition, may be represented jointly by a single election agent in any single voting section on polling day. The election agents shall not be bound to a particular voting section.


(7) One and the same person may be an election agent of only one candidate list.