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Public Officials Can Use Office Vehicles during Pre-Election Campaign

January 13, 2012

Officials of governmental institutions will be able to use service vehicles free of charge during the pre-election campaign. The old law prohibited everybody to use material-technical resources of the state-funded institutions during the pre-election campaign.

According to the new Election Code person participating in the pre-election campaign cannot use the buildings of state authority and local self-governmental agencies, as well as of the organizations funded by the state budget, during the pre-election agitation and campaign in support of or against the electoral body unless other electoral bodies have similar opportunities in the same buildings; communication sources, information data and other equipment in the offices of state authority or local self-governmental agencies or organizations funded by the state budget cannot be used during the pre-election campaign; service vehicles of the state authority or local self-governmental agencies cannot be used free of charge or with preference.

The same Code does not envisage restrictions for the political officials in the use of service vehicles except state attorneys/regional governors and leaders of local executive bodies who are not elected through direct elections.

According to the national legislation, political officials are President, MPs, Prime-Minister, other members of the government and their deputies; members of supreme councils of Abkhazian and Adjara autonomous republics, leader of governments of the autonomous republics as well as members and leaders of local executive bodies, and state attorneys.

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