Coercion and fraudulent artifice in relation to electors or candidates

1 - Anyone who employs violence or threats towards any elector or who employs deceptions, fraudulent artifices, false news or any other unlawful means in order to compel or induce him to vote for a given list or to refrain from voting shall be punished by a prison term of between six months and two years.
2 - Anyone who employs violence or threats towards any candidate or who employs deceptions, fraudulent artifices, false news or any other unlawful means in order to compel or induce him to withdraw from standing for a given list shall be punished by a prison term of between six months and two years.
3 - The penalty provided for in the previous paragraphs shall be increased if the threat was made with the use of a weapon or the violence was undertaken by two or more persons.