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Article 77
 

77.1. Public Television and radio companies or periodicals that are founded by state bodies and organizations, or funded by the state budget, shall create equal conditions for registered candidates, political parties and blocs of political parties to conduct their election campaign, and for referendum campaign groups with 20 thousand members or more to conduct their pre-referendum campaign for/ against issues to be discussed through a referendum, using funds allocated from the government budget. The TV and radio companies and periodicals mentioned above may not campaign for or against the registered candidates, political parties and bloc of political parties, or issues to be discussed through a referendum on their own initiative. No election campaign is conducted by the TV and Radio companies that belong to the state.


77.2. The TV and radio companies and periodicals mentioned in Article 77.1. of this Code, which air programming or are distributed in half of the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan or more, shall be obliged to create conditions for pre-election campaigning for registered candidates for Presidential elections, for political parties or blocs of political parties with registered candidates in more than 60 single mandate election constituencies or in more than a half of all municipalities, and for referendum campaign groups with 40,000 or more members. The Central Election Commission shall publish the list of TV and radio companies ad periodicals mentioned above, on the basis of a document submitted by the relevant executive authority body no later than 20 days after the official publishing of the decision to hold elections.


77.3. TV and radio companies that air in less than half of the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as the relevant branches of TV and radio companies mentioned in Article 77.2 of this Code and periodicals mentioned in Article 77.1. of this Code which are distributed in less than half of the territory of The Republic of Azerbaijan, may create conditions for election campaigning within the territory of the relevant administrative unit for candidates registered in a single mandate constituency, referendum campaign groups that have 20,000 or more members, and political parties or blocs of political parties whose candidates have been registered in more than 1/3 of all municipalities.
The list of TV and radio companies and periodicals shall be published by the relevant Constituency Election Commission on the basis of a document submitted by the relevant executive authority body within 30 days of the official publishing of the decision to hold elections.


77.4. TV and radio companies or periodicals not considered by Article 77.1 of this Code, that are founded by municipal institutions, shall have to create equal conditions for referendum campaign with 2,000 or more members, and registered candidates in the relevant municipality who are covered by the relevant constituency to conduct their election campaign. They shall have to create equal conditions for the registered candidate, political parties or blocs of political parties, and referendum campaign groups who are campaigning in the territory of the relevant municipality. if such TV and radio companies and periodicals do not at all participate in campaign activities, they may refuse to publish any materials or to allocate airtime.