Election campaign (canvassing)

1. Election campaign (canvassing) shall begin as soon as a legal act calling elections is issued and published. Political parties and candidates for electoral subject shall enjoy equal rights and have equal obligations as defined in this Law.

2. During the election campaign (canvassing) period a political party, a candidate for electoral subject, or an electoral subject may produce pre-election slogans, statements, inscriptions, papers, photo materials, etc. It is prohibited to prevent their dissemination and seizure, as well as to seize vehicles and other means equipped with special devices used for campaigning purposes, or to prevent their application for election campaigning purposes.

3. Political parties, candidates for electoral subject, electoral subjects, and their supporters may present a program for further activity. The election program shall not contain propaganda for war or violence, appeal for change or overthrow of the existing state and social order by violence, for violation of the territorial integrity of Georgia, for national strife and enmity, or for religious or ethnic confrontation.

4. Any individual may conduct and participate in election campaigning, except for:

a) election commission members;
b) judges;
c) public officers of the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia, the Ministries of Internal Affairs and Defence, of the State Security Service of Georgia, the