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Article 103
 

Election campaigning prohibition


1. The prohibition on election campaigning, including campaigning for other concurrently held elections and referendums, regardless of the methods, forms and means of election campaigning, shall begin on polling day seven hours before the commencement of poll and last until the close of poll on polling day. Exceptions shall apply to outdoor political advertising disseminated no later than on the last working day before the commencement of the election silence and displayed at a distance not closer than 50 metres from the building housing the polling station and to the information (notices, records) which is not considered to constitute election campaigning and which is disseminated by campaigners free of charge on the websites and personal social media accounts of the campaigners and candidates nominated by them.


2. During early voting, it shall be prohibited to carry out election campaigning activities in a polling station and within 50 metres from the building in which voting is conducted.


3. Information about the course and importance of an election for public life, the turnout, the documents required for voting, or any other information which does not instigate non-participation in the election, voting for or against a candidate or a list of candidates, also an invitation of a non-participant of an electoral political campaign to arrive to vote shall not be regarded as election campaigning.