Abuse of public or equivalent functions

Citizens who are invested with public authority, staff or agents of the state or of another public legal person and ministers of any denomination who make improper use of their functions in order to, or who, during the exercise of those functions, use them in order to, compel or induce electors to vote for a given list or lists or refrain from voting from them, shall be punished by a prison term of between six months and two years and a fine of between ten thousand and one hundred thousand escudos.