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Article 51
 

Forms and Means of the Pre-Election Campaign Publicity

 

1. Pre-election publicity campaign may be carried out in any forms and by any means provided they comply with the Constitution of Ukraine and the Ukrainian legislation. Citizens of Ukraine shall have the right to discuss freely and comprehensively election programs of parties and electoral blocs, candidates for deputies registered in multi-mandate constituencies, and candidates for deputy registered in a single-mandated constituency, as well as political, business and personal qualities of the candidates, and carry out campaign publicity ‘for’ and ‘against’.

 

2. Carrying out any pre-election publicity campaign beyond the time constraints established by Article 53 of this Law shall be forbidden.  Official announcements made during the election process (without any commentaries, which might be deemed as campaign publicity, or video and audio recordings, film clippings or photo presentations) regarding the actions of the candidates for deputies connected with their exercise of government (office) duties stipulated by the Constitution of Ukraine and the Ukrainian legislation shall not be construed as pre-election publicity campaign.

 

3. The pre-election campaign publicity shall be carried out at the expense of the National Budget of Ukraine from the resources allocated to the preparation and conduct of the election for the purposes specified in this Law, and also at the expense of the election funds of parties (blocs) which nominated candidates in multi-mandate constituencies, and the candidates registered in single-mandate constituencies. 

 

4. Pre-election publicity campaigns at the expense of funds which are allocated from the national budget of Ukraine for the preparation and conduct of elections shall be pursued in compliance with the principle of equal opportunities, i.e. parties (blocs) whose candidates for deputy were registered in the multi-mandate electoral constituency and candidates for deputies registered in a single-mandate electoral constituency shall be provided with equal printing areas in the printed media and equal air time on radio and television.

 

5. Bodies of executive power and local self-government authorities shall assign premises suitable for pre-election publicity campaigning organized by the constituency electoral commission. The said commission shall be obligated to ensure equal opportunities to parties (blocs) whose candidates for deputy were registered by the Central Electoral Commission and candidates for deputies registered in a single-mandate electoral constituency. Payments for the use of the said premises shall be effected in accordance with the procedure set forth in Article 37, p. 2 of this Law.

 

6. Any party (bloc) whose candidate for deputy is registered in a single-mandate electoral constituency shall have the right to contract, at the expense of its electoral funds, buildings or any other premises of any form of ownership to hold assemblies, meetings, debates, discussions and other public events for pre-election publicity campaigning.

 

7. Ant party (bloc) whose candidate for deputy is registered in a single-mandate electoral constituency shall notify the respective constituency electoral commission about the time and venue of the conducted public campaigning events.