Production and dissemination of printed, audiovisual and other campaigning materials.

1. Candidates and political parties shall have the right to issue and distribute printed, audiovisual and other campaigning materials in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic. It is prohibited to produce campaigning materials outside the Kyrgyz Republic. Printed and other campaign materials or copies thereof must be submitted to the Central Election Commission.

Candidates and political parties shall be obliged to publish and distribute campaigning materials with the use of sign language translation or subtitling, printed in an enlarged font that is easy to read, as well as with the use of Braille or other special means for voters with disabilities, in an amount not less than one percent of the total volume of such materials.

2. All printed and other campaigning materials should contain the name and address of the organization (family name, name, patronymic and the address of the place of residence of the person) who manufactured the campaigning materials; (name of the organization or the individual entrepreneur) who ordered the production of campaigning materials, information about the circulation and the date of their release, information about the payment for their production from the election fund; as well as the family name, name and patronymic of the candidate or the name of the authorized representative of the political party who paid for the order. Distribution of campaigning materials which do not contain this information shall be prohibited.

Production of election campaigning materials without prior payment from the relevant election fund and in violation of the requirements set forth in this Article shall be prohibited.

The bodies of local self-government shall be obliged within 10 calendar days from the date of calling of elections to assign and equip special places at each polling station for displaying campaigning materials. Candidates and political parties shall be provided with equal conditions for displaying campaigning materials. The places for displaying campaigning materials should be convenient for voters to visit and should be located in such a way that voters can familiarize themselves with the information displayed. Registered candidates or the lists of candidates should be provided with equal space for displaying printed campaigning materials. The allocated area should be sufficient for placing information materials of election commissions and printed election campaigning materials of candidates or political parties. Candidates or political parties shall have the right to receive from the relevant territorial election commission the list of places allocated for the display of printed campaigning materials.

4. It is prohibited to display campaigning materials on monuments, obelisks and buildings of historical, cultural or architectural value, in the premises of election commissions, at their entrances and voting halls.

The use of green areas, trees, slopes and peaks of mountains and hills, other natural uplands for the display of campaigning materials in any form shall not be allowed.

5. The bodies of local self-government shall be obliged within 10 calendar days after publication of the election returns to ensure cleaning of the respective territories from campaigning materials.

6. The Election Commission informed about the distribution of forged campaigning materials or campaigning materials containing the information specified in paragraph 2 of this article, shall take measures to terminate these activities and shall have the right to apply to the relevant law enforcement and other agencies with a submission on the termination of illegal campaigning activities and confiscation of illegal materials.

7. (Lost its effect in accordance with the constitutional Law of the Kyrgyz Republic No 116 dated August 8, 2019)

8. The requirements of part 2 of the present Article shall not apply to election campaigning over the radio.

(In the version of the constitutional Laws of the Kyrgyz Republic No 116 dated August 8, 2019; No 96 dated June 5, 2017)