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Article 47
 

Liability for the violation of the electoral rights.


The persons listed below shall be criminally or otherwise liable in accordance with the laws of the Kyrgyz Republic:


1) who by means of violence, deceit, threats, forgery or otherwise prevent citizens from freely exercising their right to elect and be elected, or who violate the confidentiality of voting or violate the rights of citizens to familiarize with the voter list or force or prevent citizens to / from signing in support of a candidate or participate in the forging of such signatures or bribe voters;


2) who abuse the administrative resource for the purpose of election or fail to timely form and clarify information about registered voters (voter lists) before sending this information to the relevant election commissions; violate the rules of election financing, including persons who delay the transfer of funds to the election commissions; who give citizens ballot papers in order to provide them with the opportunity to vote for other persons; who forged the electoral documents, who have drawn up and issued knowingly false documents; who knowingly counted votes incorrectly or knowingly set the voting results, establish the election returns; who failed to present or failed to publish information about the results of voting, the election returns in violation of their duties;


3) who disseminate knowingly false information about candidates, political parties or committing other actions that defame the honor and dignity of candidates, their close relatives and representatives of candidates, political parties and their representatives or violate the rights of the members of election commissions, observers, international observers, representatives of candidates, political parties, the mass media, including the right to timely receive information and copies of election documents; or unreasonably denying the registration of observers, international observers, candidates, lists of candidates, political parties, representatives of candidates and political parties, the mass media; who prevent the implementation of voting rights at the polling stations or violate the rules of election campaigning, including those campaigning during the day preceding the voting day or on the voting day; who prevent or illegally interfere in the work of the election commissions, related to the performance of their duties; who have taken the ballot papers from the voting hall; who failed to submit or publish reports on the expenditure of funds for the preparation and conduct of elections, financial reports on the election funds of candidates, political parties and financial reports on the expenditure of the budget allocated for the conduct of elections, as well as employers refusing to provide vacations for participation in elections envisaged in the present constitutional Law.


(In the version of the constitutional Law of the Kyrgyz Republic No 116 dated August 8, 2019)