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Section 147
 

(1) During the campaign period before the general election of members of parliament, after the legally binding registration of national lists public media services shall broadcast in their linear media services political advertisements thereof in the order as determined by the National Election Commission according to (2).
(2) During the campaign period before the general election of members of parliament the timeframe for broadcasting political advertisement shall be 470 minutes for nominating organisations putting forward party lists and 130 minutes for organizations putting forward national minority lists. The time available to the nominating organizations shall be divided in equal proportions between party lists and national minority lists. Time available for nominating organizations shall be divided in equal proportions per public media service.
(3) Political advertisement shall be published by the public media provider in the media service with the the greatest yearly audience rate.
(4) The media provider shall broadcast 3 times per day without interruption the political advertisements in the timeframes between 6-8, 12-14 and 18-20 o’clock. Political advertisement of nominating organisations putting forward party lists and organizations putting forward national minority lists shall be broadcasted in a row. The broadcast order of the political advertisements shall be changed daily for the sake of equal opportunity.
(5) The public media provider shall broadcast the political advertisement in the day and timeframe as requested by the nominating organization. The nominating organisation may request the broadcasting of political advertisement in one timeframe – for a duration of maximally one minute – only once per day.
(6) The media provider is only obliged to broadcast the political advertisement if the nominating organization hands over its political advertisement latest on the second day before the planned broadcast.