393.1. The registered Independent Candidates have the following prerogatives and rights:

a) To participate in the corresponding electoral campaign and in the election to the office for which they have been registered;

b) To have access to the airtimes in radio and television, as if they were a newly registered political party, but proportionally to the type of election in question and only in the stage of the electoral campaigns;

c) To obtain public and private f nancing, in the terms of this Law;

d) To carry out campaign activities and disseminate electoral propaganda in the terms of this Law;

e) To reply to and clarify the information generated by the media, when it is found that this distorts their image or that false or completely unsupported facts are disseminated;

f) To appoint representatives before the bodies of the Institute, in the terms established by this Law;

g) To request copies of the electoral documents from the electoral bodies, through their authorized representatives, and

h) The others given to them by this Law and the other applicable legislation.