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Article 38
 

(1) The political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities participating in the elections under the terms of the present title, and the independent candidates shall have free of charge access to the radio and television public services proportionally to the number of candidatures forwarded and remained final. Every radio and television public society shall take into consideration the number of candidatures forwarded by each electoral competitor within the geographical area covered by the respective radio or television station.


(2) The political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities participating in the elections under the terms of the present title, as well as the independent candidates shall have the obligation to request, within 48 hours of the setting of the election day, to the leaderships of the radio and television public services, the granting of airtimes. The request made after this time limit shall not be taken into account.


(3) Private radio and television stations shall practice the same tariff per show and per time unit for all the electoral competitors participating in the elections, according to the present title, and the airtimes offered to the electoral competitors must be proportional to those practiced by the public stations.


(4) The insertion of electoral advertisements within other shows than the electoral ones shall be forbidden.