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Article 64
 

Scale of priorities for free allocation of electoral propaganda in publicly-ownedmedia


1. Allocation of free electoral propaganda time in each publicly-owned medium and its different programming areas of coverage shall be done on the basis of the following priorities:



a) Ten minutes to parties, federations and coalitions not having taken part or not having obtained any seat in the previous equivalent election.
b) Fifteen minutes for parties, federations or coalitions who having obtained seats in the previous equivalent election, did not attain 5 per 100 of the total number of votes validly cast in the national territory.
c) Thirty minutes for parties, federations and coalitions who, having obtained seats in the previous equivalent election, attained between 5 and 20 per 100 of the total number of votes referred to in paragraph b).
d) Forty-five minutes for parties, federations and coalitions who, having obtained seats in
the previous equivalent election, attained at least 20 per 100 of total number of votes
referred in paragraph b).



2. Only parties, federations or coalitions putting up candidates in more than seventy-five of the constituencies comprised in the territorial broadcasting coverage or, as the case may be, in the programming of the relevant medium shall be entitled to the free broadcasting times referred in the preceding subsection. Municipal elections shall be subject to the special provisions of this Act. 


3. Parties, associations or federations who fail to present as many candidatures as contemplated in the preceding subsection shall nevertheless be entitled to fifteen minutes in national media’s programs provided they have polled in the previous equivalent election 20 per 100 of the votes cast within a Self-Governing Community at similar times to those allocated to parties, federations and coalitions referred to in subsection 1.d) of this present section. In this case broadcasting shall be restricted to the territory of the relevant Self-governing Community. Provided that such right shall not be used in addition to the free broadcasting times contemplated in the preceding subsection.


4. Electors’ groupings who associate themselves to launch their own propaganda in publicly-owned media shall be entitled to a ten-minute broadcast provided they have put up as many candidates as required by subsection 2 of this present section.



 1 AND 3 AS AMENDED BY SECT.20 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 8/1991, OF MARCH 13