Section 123-1 of the Penal Code shall apply to any person who:
- through menacing gatherings, clamours or demonstrations, disrupts
election operations or infringes the exercise of the right or freedom to
vote;
- on polling day, is found guilty of insult or violence against the local
polling commission or any of its members, or through assaults or
threats, delays or obstructs election operations ;
- through gifts, generosity, favours, promise of public or private
employment or any other specific benefits offered with the purpose of
influencing the vote of one or several electors, obtains their vote, either
directly or through a third party ;
- directly or through a third party, accepts or requests from candidates the
above-mentioned gifts, generosity, favours or benefits;
- through assault, violence or threats against an elector, either by making
him fear to lose his job or expose himself, his family or fortune to
danger, influences his vote.
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In force from 8 September 2026
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