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Article 80
 

The electoral campaign on Public Radio and Television

1. During the electoral campaign, Public Radio and Television provides free airtime to registered political parties and to the CEC, which is allocated according to the following rules:

a) a total of two hours are set aside for the CEC according to the time slots it requests. At least two-thirds of this time is to be between 1800 and 2200;

b) for parliamentary parties that received more than 20 percent of the seats in parliament in the last parliamentary elections, the CEC allocates airtime of not less than 30 minutes on Public Television and the same amount on Public Radio, whereas for other parliamentary parties, this time is to be not less than 15 minutes. The increase of broadcasting time for one party or within the respective coalition proportionally increases the time allotted to another party or coalition.

c) each party not represented in the Assembly that participates is allocated 10 minutes of airtime on Public Television and 10 minutes of airtime on Public Radio.

ç) the respective electoral subject must be clearly identified on any television or radio programme or advertisement for purposes of electoral propaganda.

2. Public Radio and Television covers the electoral campaign through news or informative programming in compliance with the principles of impartiality, completeness, truthfulness and pluralism of information set forth in the legislation that regulates the field of electronic media. The free airtime allocated to political parties in accordance with point 1 of this article may not be allocated as part of news or information programming.

3. Public Radio and Television broadcasts free political advertising by calculating the broadcasting time within the airtime in accordance with point 1 of this article.