Electoral corruption

1 - Anyone who, in order to persuade someone to vote or refrain from voting for a given list, offers, promises or grants public or private employment or any other thing or advantage to one or more electors or, by agreement with the latter, to a third party, even when the thing or advantages so used, promised or obtained are dissimulated in the form of pecuniary compensation given to the elector for travel or accommodation expenses or of payment for food or beverages or on the pretext of expenses in relation to the election campaign, shall be punished by a prison term of up to two years and a fine of between five thousand and fifty thousand escudos.
2 - The same penalty shall be imposed on any elector who accepts any of the benefits provided for in the previous paragraph.