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Provisions regulating the media during election campaigns are found in Articles 73 and 731. As noted in the previous Joint Opinion, 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. The recommendations set out in last Joint Opinion to address these problems have not yet been implemented through revisions to these provisions. Therefore, the following analysis and recommendations from the previous Joint Opinion are repeated.[27]