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Article 133
 

Suspension of the right to broadcasting time


1 - A candidacy’s exercise of the right to broadcasting time shall be suspended when:
a) It uses expressions or images that may constitute a crime of defamation or libel, offence to the democratic institutions, call for disorder or insurrection, or incitement to hatred, violence or war;
b) It engages in commercial advertising.
2 - The suspension shall be graduated between one day and the number of days remaining in the campaign, depending on the seriousness and degree of frequency of the offence, and shall encompass the exercise of the right to broadcasting time on all radio and television stations, even if the fact that caused it only occurred on one of them.
3 - The suspension is independent of any civil or criminal liability.