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Article 53
 

General Rules of the Use of Mass-Media

 

1. Any pre-election publicity campaigns with the use of the mass media of any forms of ownership shall be conducted in compliance with the principle of equal opportunities and under rules stipulated in this Law.

 

2. Any pre-election publicity campaigns in the mass media shall be presented in the form of public debates, discussions, round table discussions, press conferences, interviews, speeches, political advertising, television footages, video films, or other materials about parties (blocs) or candidates for deputy, should the form of presentation be in no contravention to the Constitution of Ukraine and laws thereof.

 

3. Any party (bloc) shall have the right, at the expense of funds which are allocated from the national budget of Ukraine for the preparation and conduct of elections, make use of the public all-national radio and television channels as well of the “Holos Ukrayiny” and “Uryadovy Kouryer” dailies for the purposes of pre-election publicity campaigning and on conditions set forth in this Law.

 

4. Any candidate for deputy registered in a single-mandate electoral constituency shall have the right to make use of the public and communal mass media, at the expense and within the limits of funds which are allocated from the national budget of Ukraine for the preparation and conduct of elections and on conditions set forth in this law.

 

5. Pre-election publicity campaigning in the mass media of any form ownership and at the expense of electoral funds of parties (blocs) or of any candidate for deputy registered in any single-mandate electoral constituency shall be conducted on conditions of equal charges for air time or printing area units and shall be confined only to the allowed upper amount of electoral fund costs.

 

6. Charges for air time and printing area units shall be approved by the respective mass media not later than 80 days prior to the election day, shall not exceed commercial advertising charges and shall not be subject to any changes throughout the duration of the electoral process.

 

7. In any instance of publicizing of any outcomes of polling related to the election of deputies the mass media shall make references to the organization that conducted the polling, the time when it was held, the number of respondents, the methods of data collection, the exact wordings of any posed questions and the statistical value of a possible error.