Conducting election campaigning through printed media and Internet publications.

1. Periodical print media, as well as internet publications subject to paragraph 18 of Article 22 of this constitutional Law and distributed on the territory where elections are held, except for publications established by state agencies and bodies of local self-government exclusively for publication of official communications and materials, normative and other acts, shall on equal terms allocate free printed or respectively electronic space for materials provided by candidates in the size of at least one A4 page. Specialized printed or online publications (children’s, technical, scientific, etc.) shall be allowed to refuse to publish any campaign materials on the condition of complete non-participation in the election campaign in whatever form.

2. Printed or Internet publications, regardless of their form of ownership, which have provided printed or electronic space to candidates or political parties, shall be obliged to provide printed or electronic space to other candidates or political parties on the same conditions (equal prices, volume and other conditions). In this case, the cost of printed or electronic space should not exceed the cost was charged 6 months before the day of calling of elections.

(In the version of the constitutional Law of the Kyrgyz Republic No 96 dated June 5, 2017)