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Article 76
 

Media Presentation


(1) Paid political advertising must be properly and visibly marked as “paid political advertising” and clearly separated from other media contents.
(2) The client ordering the advertising must be clearly indicated in all forms of paid political advertising.
(3) Participation of minors in paid political advertising shall be prohibited.
(4) Broadcasters cannot broadcast paid political advertising during news, special informative programmes, educational and children’s programmes and during live broadcast from religious, sports, cultural, entertainment and other type of events.
(5) The public broadcasting service shall not broadcast paid political advertising.
(6) For the purpose of providing objective information to the voters about the course of the election campaign and for the purpose of protecting the profession of journalism from any political influence during the electoral media presentation, special information programs must not be used as a form of paid political advertising.
(7) The campaigns of the State Election Commission aimed at educating the voters about exercising their right to vote and about fair and democratic elections shall not be considered as paid political advertising. They should be separated from the rest of the program and the purchaser must be clearly indicated.
(8) Broadcasters cannot broadcast free political presentation in their programmes from the day of the announcement of the elections until their closing.