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Article 82
 

82.1. Paid air time for election campaigning on TV and radio shall be allocated in conformity with the legislation on advertisement.


82.2. it shall be prohibited to interrupt election campaign programs of a registered candidate, political party, bloc of political parties, or referendum campaign groups, transmitted by TV and Radio companies mentioned in Article 77.1 of this Code, with broadcasting of other TV or Radio programs.


82.3. information on election campaigning activities of registered candidates, political parties, blocs of political parties and referendum campaign groups should be announced, as a rule, at the beginning of the telecast which is broadcasted without any comments. The registered candidates, political parties, blocs of political parties, and referendum campaign groups shall not pay for airtime spent on such information. In such cases, none of the registered candidates, political parties, blocs of political parties, or referendum campaign groups should be given preference when reporting election campaigning.


82.4. Election campaign telecasts or radiocasts shall be video/audio taped. They shall be maintained by TV and Radio companies for 12 months from the day they have been aired. TV and Radio companies should preserve reports on the allocation of free and paid airtime for 5 years starting from Election Day.