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Article 68
 

Right to demand rectification during electoral campaign


Where any mass-communication medium divulges facts concerning candidates or leaders of parties, federations, coalitions of electors’ groupings taking part in the election, and the formations concerned find such facts inaccurate and that their dissemination might cause them harm, they may exercise the right to demand rectification according to the Institutional Act 2/1984, of March 26, with the following provisos:


a) If the information the parties concerned demand to rectify has been divulged in a publication whose periodical nature makes rectification impossible, the editor of said publication shall within three days from the demand cause the rectification to be published at its expense within the same term in another publication of the same area and with a similar circulation.


b) The oral hearing provided for in subsection 2 of section 5 of the aforesaid Institutional Act shall be held within four days from the date of petition.