The fact that the period of election campaigning is fixed, shall not restrict the conduct of election campaigning during other periods not prohibited by this Code. 

The period of election campaigning shall start on the 5th day following the last day of the time period prescribed by this Code for the registration of the electoral lists of political parties running in elections and of the candidates and shall expire one day before the voting day. The campaigning during that period shall be hereinafter referred to as “the election campaigning”. 

In case of a second round of elections of the National Assembly the election campaign shall start on the eighth day after adoption of a decision on holding a second round of election.  

Campaigning — on the voting day and the day preceding it — through public speeches, public events, mass media, including byaudiovisual media service providers via cable network, satellite communication and terrestrial on-air broadcasting, as well as advertising through the Internet, shall be prohibited.  

2.1 Within the meaning of this Code, election campaign shall be deemed to be any action aimed at persuading electors to vote or not to vote in favour of a certain candidate or political party (alliance of the political parties). 

1.2 During the period of election campaign,concerts, plays, sports events, screening of films and other events may be financed by a political party (alliance of political parties) or candidate only at the expense of the election fund.

1.3  Political advertising is a form of election campaigning aimed at persuading electors to vote or not to vote in favour of a certain candidate or political party (alliance of political parties). Political advertising shall include symbols or other identification signs characterising political parties (alliances of political parties) or candidates. Audiovisual announcements that concerts or other public events are held with the support of a political party (alliance of political parties) or a candidate or include mentioning of the fact of participation of the candidate in those pubic events, shall be deemed as political advertising.  

1.4 During the period of election campaign, official messages on exercising the powers of candidates running in elections shall not be deemed to be election campaigning. Such messages must not contain comments of campaigning nature or present audiovisual clips, films or pictures illustrating the activity of the given official as a candidate, that could be associated with election campaign.

2. The State shall ensure the conduct of a free election campaigning. It shall be ensured by state and local self-government bodies by providing them with halls and other premises for the purpose of organising election gatherings, meetings of electors with candidates and other events related to elections. These shall be provided to political parties (alliances of political parties) running in elections of the National Assembly, the councils of elders of communities in which elections are held through the proportional electoral system on equal grounds and free of charge, as prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission. Halls of general education institutions may be provided to candidates and political parties running in elections only after 18:00, or on non-working days, and only in cases where there are no other relevant halls in the given community (administrative district of the city of Yerevan) for conducting election campaigning. 

3. No later than 20 daysafter calling elections of the National Assembly and 7 days in case of holding early elections, the councils of elders of communities in which elections are held through the proportional electoral system, the marz governor and, in case of Yerevan, the Mayor of Yerevan shall submit to the Central Electoral Commission the list of halls and other structures that are provided free of charge to political parties running in elections. This list shall be posted on the website of the Central Electoral Commission. Information shall be submittedin accordance with the procedure prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission.

4. After calling the election, election campaign offices may be formed. Election campaign offices may not be located in the buildings occupied by state and local self-government bodies (except for cases when election campaign offices occupy a territory not belonging to those bodies), buildings of general education institutions, as well as in the buildings where electoral commissions are put in place. Signboards placed on election campaign offices shall not be considered as printed campaign materials within the meaning of this Code where they do not contain a direct call to vote for or against a candidate, a political party running in elections, the number of such posters does not exceed the number of electoral precincts formed for elections, and where the surface area of each signboard does not exceed 6 square metres. 

5. During the election campaign, as well as on the day preceding the voting day and on the voting day, candidates, political parties running in elections shall be prohibited to provide (promise) — in person or through someone else on their behalf, or in any other manner, gratuitously or on preferential conditions — money, food, securities, goods to electors or to render (promise) services to them. Charitable organisations, the names of which may resemble (be associated with) the names of political parties and candidates running in elections, may not carry out charity work during the election campaigning in the communities where elections are held in which these candidates, political parties or candidates nominated thereby are running. 

6. During the election campaign, as well as on the day preceding the voting day and on the voting day, candidates, political parties running in elections shall be prohibited to provide (promise) — in person or through someone else on their behalf, or in any other manner, gratuitously or on preferential conditions — money, food, securities, goods to electors or to render (promise) services to them. Charitable organisations, the names of which may resemble (be associated with) the names of political parties and candidates running in elections, may not carry out charity work during the election campaigning in the communities where elections are held in which these candidates, political parties or candidates nominated thereby are running.  

6.1 The organisations, the names whereof may be associated with the names of political parties running in elections or which are managed by political parties, cannot engage in charity in the communities where elections are held within the period from the entry into force of the decision on calling elections or a referendum until summarisation of the results of the elections or referendum. Within the meaning of this Article, an organisation shall be deemed to be managed by a political party, where members of the governing body of the organisation fully or partially match with the members of the permanently functioning governing body of the political party. The prohibition prescribed by this Article shall also apply to organisations, the founder (founders) or head whereof has been nominated as a candidate in the elections.

7. Electoral commissions shall exercise control over the observance of the procedure for election campaigning prescribed by the Code or legal acts adopted based on this Code. In case of violation of this procedure by candidates, political parties running in elections, the electoral commission having registered the candidate and the electoral list of the political party running in elections shall apply to the competent authorities in order to prevent them, or shall impose a warning on the candidate, political party running in elections, which has committed the violation, by giving a reasonable time limit for eliminating the violation, which may not exceed 3 days. The candidate, the political party running in elections shall be obliged to eliminate the violation (consequences of the violation) within the time limit indicated in the decision and inform the electoral commission thereon in writing. 

8. Where there is such a violation of the prescribed procedure for the election campaigning, which is of a continuous nature, and the committed violation may essentially affect the election results, or it is impossible to eliminate the consequences of the violation committed, and the committed violation may essentially affect the election results, the electoral commission having registered the candidate, the electoral list of the political party running in elections shall apply to court for revoking the registration of the candidate and the electoral list of the political party running in elections. The court may revoke the registration of the candidate, the electoral list of the political party running in elections, where it concludes that the violation has been committed or directed to be committed by the candidate or the political party running in elections. 

9. Arrested candidates or candidates kept in detention and candidates included in the electoral list of a political party running in elections shall conduct election campaigning through proxies designated to act in electoral processes. To that end, arrested candidates or candidates kept in detention shall have the right to have meetings with up to 3 proxies for up to 2 hours a day at the facilities for holding arrestees or detention facilities, respectively, during the campaigning.