83.1. in order to conduct unpaid pre-election campaigning, presidential candidates, 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 referendum campaign groups with 40,000 or more members, shall be entitled to relevant space for free advertising in periodicals issued at least once a week, mentioned in Article 77.2 of this Code.

83.2 in order to conduct unpaid pre-election campaigning, candidates registered for single-mandate constituencies and referendum campaign groups with 20,000 or more members, as well as political parties or blocs of political parties whose candidates have been registered in more than 1/3 of all municipalities, shall be entitled to relevant space for free advertising in periodicals issued at least once a week, mentioned in Article 77.3 of this Code.

83.3. in order to conduct unpaid pre-election campaigning, candidates for municipal elections and referendum campaign groups with 2,000 or more members shall be entitled to relevant space for free advertising in periodicals issued at least once a week, mentioned in Article 77.4 of this Code.

83.4. Within a week of the beginning of the period set forth in Article 75 of this Code, a lottery shall be conducted, in the manner determined by the Central Election Commission, among registered candidates, political parties, blocs of political parties, or referendum campaign groups, on the basis of their applications for the use of free publication space.

83.5. Editorial offices of the periodicals indicated in Article 77.1 of this Code shall allocate special pages in their periodicals for free publication.

83.6. The total weekly amount of free space allocated by editorial offices of each periodical indicated in Article 77.1 of this Code to the registered candidates, political parties, blocs of political parties, and referendum campaign groups, shall constitute at least 10% of the general volume of print-space for the period indicated in Article 75 of this Code. The editorial office of the publication shall announce the general volume of free publication space provided for pre- referendum campaigning at least 30 days after the publication of the decision setting the Election Day. Periodicals shall allocate an equal amount of printspace for registered candidates, political parties, blocs of political parties and referendum campaign groups.

83.7. Allocation of the general amount of free print-space in the periodicals indicated in Articles 77.2 and 77.3, shall be determined by dividing this general amount by the total number of registered candidates, political parties, blocs of political parties, and referendum campaign groups which are entitled to free publication space for preelection campaigning in those periodicals.

83.8. Dates for free publication of pre-election campaign materials of registered candidates, political parties, blocs of political parties and referendum campaign groups shall be identified by a draw in the presence of the interested parties. The draw shall be conducted on the date of commencement of the period set forth in Article 75 of this Code. Members of the relevant election commission, as well as persons mentioned in Articles 40.2 and 40.4 of this Code, may participate in the draw process. Results of the draw shall be formalized by a protocol.

83.9. Periodicals’ expenses for allocation of free print-space for registered candidates, political parties, blocs of political parties and referendum campaign groups, shall be reimbursed from the state budget.