Article 67.12 grants a political party and candidate for deputy the “right to reply” to information published by the media if the information is “deemed unreliable by the party or a parliamentary candidate”. This article places an impermissible burden on the media as it allows for a candidate to subjectively determine the “reliability” of information and, thereby, acquire free media access to “disprove” the information. Furthermore, the restriction that such a “disproval shall not be disproved” unduly limits the access to this right of reply to the party who first forwards a claim of “unreliability”.
