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Article 231
 

Payment of Cost of Free Airtime and Free Space in Periodicals by Candidates to Municipal Membership, Political Parties and Blocks of Political Parties.

231.1   The candidate, political party or block of political parties not mentioned in Article 230 of this Code, should completely pay the costs of free airtime and space allocated by TV and radio companies and periodicals mentioned in Articles 77.2, 77.3 and 77.4 of this Code. The given cost should be paid by the candidate, political party or blocks of political parties from election funds until the day a final financial report is submitted. The Central Election Commission shall send the following to the TV and Radio companies and offices of periodicals mentioned in Articles 77.2, 77.3 and 77.4 of this Code within 3 days after the general results of elections are officially published:



the list of candidates, political parties or blocks of political parties, as well as a list of political parties included in the block of political parties mentioned above;



their addresses;



verified copies of extracts from joint decisions of blocks of political parties on payment of used free airtime and space allocated by periodicals.



231.2   TV and radio companies and periodicals mentioned in Articles 77.2, 77.3 and 77.4 of this Code shall inform the candidates, political parties, blocks of political parties not considered in Article 230 of this Code about the cost of used free airtime, volume and cost of used free space in periodicals, about their legal address and bank information within 10 days after final election results are officially published.

231.3   The cost of free airtime and free space in periodicals mentioned in Articles 80.5, 83.6 and 224.2 of this Code, shall be determined by multiplying the total volume of airtime and space in periodicals allocated for the candidate, political party or block of political parties in accordance with the rules defined in Articles  80.6 and  83.7 of this Code to cost of airtime and space on periodical and for publication of information determined by TV and radio companies and periodicals.



When political parties and block of political parties use free airtime to conduct joint campaign activities considered by Article 224.2 of this Code, the amount of funds returned by each political party and block of political parties shall be determined by TV and Radio companies by dividing it proportionally by the total number of participants of each joint TV program.





If a candidate, political party or block of political parties refuses to use free airtime in conformity with the rules and period defined by the Article 81.5 of this Code, the cost of presented free airtime shall not be paid.





TV and Radio companies and periodicals considered by Articles 77.2, 77.3 and 77.4 of this Code shall inform the Central Election Commission about the candidate or political parties considered by Article 230 of this Code, which did not completely pay cost of free airtime and space in a periodical, within 12 months period effective from the voting day. The Constituency Election Commissions shall inform the Central Election Commission about citizens or political parties not considered by Article 230 of this Code and those who have debt obligations to the election commission, within 12 months period effective from the Election Day