The Election Code stipulates that election campaigning begins at the time of the announcement of the elections (Art. 73.1, Art. 73.7), but does not provide for any general deadline for electoral agitation. Originally, Art. 73.3 only forbids election agitation on polling day. Now the same article only prohibits agitation via the press and other mass media on polling day. In many Western democracies, however, a general deadline for electoral campaigning (24 hours, 48 hours, etc. before election day) is established by law. This might be appropriate in the Georgian case, too.