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Article 168
 

168.1. Starting from the day on which, according to this Law and the decision issued by the General Council, the federal pre-campaigns begin and until their conclusion, the Institute will make thirty minutes a day in each radio station and television channel available to the national political parties as a group.


168.2. For the purposes of the previous paragraph, the pre-campaign of a party concludes, at the latest, the day before it holds its internal election or that the national electoral assembly takes place, or equivalent, or the session of the management body that decides on the matter, according to each statutes of each party.


168.3. The pre-campaign messages of the political parties will be transmitted according to the standard approved by the Radio and Television Committee of the Institute.


168.4. Each party will freely decide the allocation, for the type of pre-campaign, of the messages that correspond to them, including their use for the local precampaigns in the states with electoral process that coincide with the federal one. The parties should duly inform the Institute about their decisions on this matter, so that it will decide on the appropriate.


168.5. The remaining time after deducting the one referred to in paragraph 1 of this article will be available to the Institute for its own purposes or those of other electoral authorities. In all cases, the concessionaires of radio and television will abstain from commercializing the time not assigned by the Institute.