Election Campaign

(1) For the purposes of this Act, election campaign means any activity of political party, political movement, 2) coalition of political parties and political movements, candidates and third parties pursuant to Article 8, for which payment is usually made, leading to promotion of their activity, objectives and programme for purposes of obtaining a function elected pursuant to a special regulation. 1) It means the activity in favour as well as to the detriment of the entities pursuant to the first sentence.

(2) The election campaign shall begin on the day of publishing of the call of elections in the Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter the “call of elections”) and end 48 hours before the date of elections. 

(3) The activity of entities other than listed in Paragraph 1 for the support or to the detriment of political parties, coalitions, and candidates is prohibited at the time provided for election campaign.