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Article 62
 

1. Political parties and coalitions have the right to be allotted broadcasting time on public and private radio and television stations for the purposes of election propaganda.


2. During the electoral campaign, radio and television stations will reserve the following broadcasting time for the political parties and coalitions:


a) Radiotelevisão Portuguesa, S.A., on all its channels, including the international channel, as well as private television stations: . From Monday to Friday – fifteen minutes, between 7:00 pm and 10:00pm; . On Saturdays and Sundays – thirty minutes, between 7:00pm and 10:00pm;


b) Radiodifusão Portuguesa, S.A., on medium wave and modulated frequency, connected to all regional transmitters and on international broadcast: . Sixty minutes every day, twenty minutes of which between 7:00am and midday, twenty minutes between midday and 7:00pm and twenty minutes between 7:00pm and midnight.


c) National private radio stations, on medium wave and modulated frequency, connected to all transmitters, if more than one: . Sixty minutes every day, twenty minutes of which between 7:00am and midday and forty minutes between 7:00pm and midnight.


d) Private regional radio stations: . Thirty minutes every day.


3. Up to ten days before the opening of the campaign, the stations must inform the National Elections Commission about the schedule for the broadcasts.


4. Radio and television stations will register and file all the broadcasts corresponding to the exercise of the right to broadcasting time for a one-year period.