Provisions regulating the media during election campaigns are found in Articles 73 and 731. Although these provisions appear to provide an adequate framework for fair campaign conditions for election contestants, they are problematic as electoral contestants must satisfy certain conditions before they can have the right to equal treatment in the allocation of media time. Conditions have been created by Article 731, which provides special rules for “qualified subjects”. However, before an electoral contestant is granted “qualified subject” status, s/he must establish a level of “popular support” through either prior electoral success or sufficient opinion poll results. New political parties, which should have equal opportunities with political parties that have participated in elections previously, are limited to “qualifying” through the usage of opinion polls' results. This is not consistent with good practice. Validity/correctness of opinion poll results and the methodology used are difficult to verify, and can be manipulated. Furthermore, it might mean that if no, or not enough, opinion polls are conducted, election subjects that did not take part in previous elections would be prevented from receiving free airtime.
