Citizens who are granted public powers, employees or agents of the State or any other legal person governed by public law and ministers of any religion who abuse their functions or, in exercising them, restrain or induce the electors to vote in a given list or lists or to abstain from voting in such list or lists, will be punished with coercive detention from six months to two years and a fine between PTE 10,000 and PTE 100,000.