RA 8295 Section 5

Prohibited Acts, Election Offenses and Penalties.

Section 5

SEC. 5. Prohibited Acts, Election Offenses and Penalties. – Any act of coercion, bribery, threat, harassment, intimidation, terrorism, or actually causing, inflicting or producing violence, injury, punishment, torture, damage, loss or disadvantage to discourage any other person or persons from filing a certificate of candidacy in order to eliminate all other potential candidate from running in a special election shall constitute as an election offense. Violations of this provision shall be prosecuted and penalized in accordance with the provision of Section 264 of the Omnibus Election Code.

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