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Article 149
 

Amended by Article 297 of Law 5728 on 23 January 2008)



Those who speak to an audience in an electioneering meeting where the committee specified in the 51st Article has not been formed shall be sentenced to prison for three months to six months.(…)


Those who prevent an electioneering meeting from being held or cause to the suspension of such a meeting are sentenced to prison for six months to one year. If such an offence has been committed by more than two collaborating people by using violence, coercion or threat, each offender are sentenced to prison terms for two to five years. If the mentioned offences are committed by the collaboration of at least three people one of which is armed, such offenders are sentenced to prison terms for 5 to 8 years.