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Article 160
 

160.1. The Institute is the only authority that administers the airtime corresponding to the State in radio and television used for the purposes of the Institute and of the other electoral authorities, as well as the exercise of the prerogatives and rights that the Constitution and this Law give to the political parties and independent candidates on this matter.


160.2. The Institute will guarantee the political parties the use of their constitutional prerogatives in radio and television; it will establish the standards for the allocation of the messages and programs that they are entitled to disseminate, both during the electoral processes and outside of them; it will attend to the complaints and reports on the violation of the applicable rules and, where necessary, will establish the penalties.


160.3. Following consultations with the organizations that make up the radio and television broadcasters and the communication professionals, the General Council will approve, no later than August 20 of the year before the election, the general guidelines that, without affecting the freedom of speech and the free manifestation of thought nor aiming to regulate these liberties, it recommends to the news agents regarding the information and dissemination of the pre-campaign and campaign activities of the political parties and of the independent candidates.