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Article 47
 

Pre-election Campaigning


(1) Citizens of the Republic of Moldova, parties and other socio-political organisations, electoral blocs, candidates and trustees of the candidates have the right to put forward for free discussion aspects the candidates’ electoral programmes (platforms), their political, professional and personal skills, as well as to organise electoral campaigning during the meetings, reunions with the electorate, through mass media, through electoral banners and other forms of communication.


(2) The exercise of this right may be subject to a series of formalities, conditions, restrictions or sanctions regulated by the law, which represent necessary measures in a democratic society, for national security, territorial integrity or public safety, protection of order and prevention of crimes, protection of health or morality, protection of reputation, protection of the rights of others, to avoid the disclosure of confidential information or for guaranteeing the authority and impartiality of the judicial power.


(21) It is prohibited to electoral candidates to engage in any form of campaigning, people who are not citizens of the Republic of Moldova.


(3) Dissemination of campaign information is allowed only after the candidate’s registration with the appropriate electoral body.


(4) The procedure of posting, under equal terms, of the electoral advertising on advertising boards, including private ones, is approved by the Central Electoral Commission and is made public as soon as the electoral period starts.


(5) Candidates may organise meetings with the electorate. Local public administration authorities are obliged to ensure that such meetings are organized on equal terms and conditions. Electoral bodies shall be informed in case of identified irregularities in relation with the organisation and conduct of meetings.


(6) Candidates may not use public means and goods (administrative resources) during electoral campaigns, and public authorities/institutions and other related institutions may not send/grant to candidates public goods or other benets unless on a contract basis, providing equal terms to all candidates.


(61) Images representing state institutions or public authorities of the country, other states or international organisations cannot be used for the purpose of electoral advertising. It is prohibited to combine colours and/or sounds which are associated with the national symbols of the Republic of Moldova or of another state, to use materials which depict historical personalities of the Republic of Moldova or other states, symbols of other states or international organisations or images of foreign offcials.


(7) Local public administration authorities are obliged, within 3 days as of the registration of the candidate, to establish and guarantee the minimum of special places for electoral advertising, as well as to establish a minimum of locations to organise meetings with voters. The respective decisions (orders) are immediately displayed at the premises of these authorities and are made public via mass media and other available means of communication.


(8) Dissemination of campaign information on Election Day and the day preceding the elections is prohibited. This prohibition does not refer to the information which has been already posed on Internet and to the posters previously displayed.