§ Art. I-51Forms and Means of Election Campaigning

1. Election campaigning shall mean carrying out any activity aimed at encouraging voters to vote
or not to vote for a particular candidate or party (party organizations) that are electoral subjects. Election
campaigning may be performed by any means that do not contradict the Constitution of Ukraine and
the Laws of Ukraine.
 Election campaigning may be conducted in the following forms:
 1) holding meetings with citizens, other meetings with voters;
 2) holding rallies, marches, demonstrations;
 3) holding public debates, discussions, round tables, press conferences pertaining to the
 positions of election programs and political activities of candidates and parties (party
 organizations) that are electoral subjects;

 

 4) making public political advertisements, speeches, interviews, essays, video films, audio and
 video clips, other publications and notices in print and audiovisual (electronic) mass media;
 5) distributing election leaflets, posters and other printed campaigning materials or printed
 publications containing election campaigning materials;
 6) placing printed campaigning materials or political advertisements on outdoor advertising
 media;
 7) holding concerts, performances, sport competitions, showing films and television programs,
 or [staging] other public events with the support of a candidate or party (party
 organization) that are electoral subjects, as well as making public the information on such
 support;
 8) public appeals to vote or not to vote for a candidate or party (party organization) that are
 electoral subjects, as well as public assessments of activities of such a candidate or party
 (party organization);
 9) installation of campaign tents;
 10) other forms that do not contradict the Constitution of Ukraine and the Laws of Ukraine.
 2. Citizens of Ukraine shall have the right to freely and comprehensively discuss the election
programs of candidates and parties (party organizations) that are electoral subjects, as well as
political, business and personal qualities of candidates, to campaign for or against candidates or
parties (party organizations).
 3. Official reports during the election campaign (without comments that may be of a campaigning
nature, as well as video, audio recording, filming, photo illustrations) on actions taken by candidates in
connection with performance of their official (service) duties provided for by the Constitution of
Ukraine or the Laws of Ukraine, shall not be considered election campaigning.
 4. Candidates and parties (party organizations) that are electoral subjects shall finance their
election campaigns, unless otherwise stated by this Code.
 Support by candidates (candidate) or parties (party organizations) who are electoral subjects, on
their own behalf or on behalf of a candidate (candidates) which it has nominated, for concerts,
performances, sport competitions, demonstration of films and television programs, or other public
events, and also the staging of the aforementioned public events in support of a candidate (candidates)
or the subject that has nominated such candidates, shall be allowed only if such events are paid for out
of the electoral fund of the respective electoral subject.
 5. Hidden campaigning, as well as the placement or dissemination of campaign materials not
marked in accordance with the requirements of this Code shall be prohibited. Advertisements of
printed publications (newspapers, magazines, books), other goods or services, using the names or
images (portraits) of candidates, names or symbols of political parties that are electoral subjects shall
be deemed the election campaigning. The election campaigning shall also include the use of symbols
(anthem, flag, sign, slogan) or logos of a party that is the electoral subject of the respective election
process, the use of campaign slogans, mottos of candidates and parties (party organizations) that are
electoral subjects in the respective election process, as well as announcements about holding
spectacular or other public events in support of the party or candidate or about the support of the
aforementioned events by candidates or parties (party organizations) that are electoral subjects, as
well as attracting attention to the fact about the participation in such events of certain persons as
candidates.
 6. Official reports during the election campaign on actions taken by candidates holding positions
in state executive bodies, state bodies of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, or local self-government
bodies, in connection with performance of their official (service) duties provided for by the Constitution
of Ukraine or the Laws of Ukraine, and produced in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the
Law of Ukraine “On the Procedure for Media Coverage of activities of State Executive Bodies and
Bodies of Local Self-Government in Ukraine”, shall not be deemed to be election campaigning. Such

 

official reports must not contain any comments of a campaigning nature, video or audio recording, or
photographic illustrations of activities of the aforementioned persons as candidates.
 No mention shall be made in such reports of respective persons or their intended activities in the
case of their election.
 7. A candidate or party (party organization) that are electoral subjects shall have the right to
rent buildings and premises of all forms of ownership for the holding of meetings, rallies, debates,
discussions, or other public events of election campaigning, on a contract basis, at the expense of their
respective electoral funds.
 8. If a building (premises) of any form of its ownership is provided to a candidate or party (party
organization) for holding a pre-election public event or election campaign event, the owner (proprietor,
user) of this building (premises) shall not refuse to allow any other candidate or party (party
organization) to use the same building (premises) on the same terms. The aforementioned requirement
shall not apply to premises owned or permanently used by candidates and parties (party organizations)
that are electoral subjects.
 Legal persons or individuals acting as distributors of outdoor advertising, who provide advertising
media (outdoor advertising media) for the placement of campaign materials (political advertising), shall
provide an equal access and equal conditions for candidates and parties (party organizations) that are
electoral subjects.
 9. Information agencies shall provide premises to candidates or subjects of their nomination
for holding press conferences on conditions of equal access and equal pay. An electoral subject
shall pay for the use of premises for holding press conferences provided by an information agency
at the expense of its electoral fund. Premises for holding press conferences shall not be provided
without concluding an agreement and advance payment from the respective electoral fund.
 10. Candidates, parties (party organizations) who are electoral subjects shall facilitate voters’
access to campaign materials without discrimination, in particular by producing printed and
audiovisual materials in accessible formats, bringing official websites in compliance with
accessibility standards, as well as in another manner not prohibited by the Law.