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Article 7
 

(Provisions to increase citizens’ access to information on lists and coalitions)



  1. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Information shall ensure comprehensive and impartial information to citizens in order to guarantee the broadest possible information on programmes and candidates, under conditions of equality among lists and coalitions. In particular, they shall:


a)    Guarantee the broadcasting of radio and televised programmes, including debates among lists and coalitions of lists, according to procedures to be agreed with the delegates referred to in Art. 14 of the electoral law and the Supervisory Committee referred to in Law 41, 27 April 1989;


b)    Produce and disseminate to all families, irrespective from their residency, a publication containing the programme and the candidates of the lists and coalitions, where the programmes and lists of coalitions come first than those of lists that are not part of a coalition; within this subdivision, the order of the lists shall be the same as on the ballot paper;


c)    Create a website for each election round, where all lists and coalitions participating in the elections autonomously upload campaign material on an equal basis. They shall also guarantee adequate information on such website, particularly for voters residing abroad. The civil and criminal liability for the content of webpages allocated to each list and coalition shall exclusively fall on their legal representatives, and not on public officials administering the website;


d)    Organise meetings and debates open to the public in the Townships of the Republic among all lists and coalitions and, in case of a second round of voting, among the lists and/or coalitions participating in the second round.


Organise, for the first round of voting, meetings among lists and coalitions of lists in the main consulates, financed by the State, according to the provisions set forth in a delegated decree to be issued upon proposal of the Election Commission.