167.1. During the federal electoral pre-campaigns and campaigns, the time in radio and television, converted to the number of messages assigned to the political parties, will be distributed between them according to the following criterion: thirty percent of the total will be distributed equally and the remaining seventy percent will be distributed in proportion to the percentage of the votes obtained by each political party in the previous election for federal representatives.

167.2. Regarding coalitions, the provisions of the previous paragraph will be applied in the following manner:

a) The total coalition will be given the prerogative of access to time in radio and television established in this Law in the thirty percent that is to be distributed equally, just as if it was one single party. Of the seventy percent proportional to the votes, each of the coalition parties will participate in the terms and conditions established in paragraph two above. The coalition agreement will establish the distribution of time in each of these media for the coalition candidates, and

b) Concerning partial or f exible coalitions, each coalition party will access its respective prerogative in radio and television, exercising its rights separately. The coalition agreement will establish the distribution of time in each of these media for the coalition candidates and for the candidates of each party.

167.3. The General Council will issue the regulations regarding the access to radio and television by the coalitions and the parties that are a part of them.

167.4. Regarding pre-campaigns and campaigns in local elections, the basis for the distribution of the seventy percent of the time assigned to the political parties will be the percentage of the votes obtained by each of them in the previous election for local representatives in the respective state.

167.5. The newly registered political parties, both national and local, depending on the case, will participate only in the distribution of the thirty percent of the time referred to in paragraph 1 of this article.

167.6. To establish the number of messages to be distributed among the political parties, the units of measure are: thirty seconds, one and two minutes, without fractions; the regulations will establish the appropriate.

167.7. The time that corresponds to each party will be used exclusively for the dissemination of the messages, the time of which will be established in this chapter. The standards will be set taking into consideration the total messages and their distribution among the political parties.