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Article 133
 

1. The right to broadcasting time is suspended for candidatures that:


a) Use expressions or images that constitute a slander or libel crime, an offence to democratic institutions, that calls for disorder or insurrection or that constitutes an incitement to hatred, violence or war;


b) Use commercial advertising.


2. The duration of the suspension may be from one day to the number of days the campaign has left to run, depending on the severity and frequency of the offence, and will cover the right to broadcasting time on all radio and television stations, even when the fact that has led to the suspension only occurred on one of them.


3. The suspension does not release the offender from civil or criminal liability.