33. What criteria determine allocation for free or subsidized access to media for political parties?

[Public television] has an obligation to provide free time, which is divided among all contestants according to a formula based on the number of votes and seats obtained by each party in the previous parliamentary election. If a party did not run or did not win representation in the last elections, it still has the right to ten minutes of free time. In addition to free time for advertising, public television provides time to political parties in its news and information programmes; this timeis also allocated on the basis of the parties previous election results.

Source: GRECO (2009). Evaluation Report on Spain, Transparency of Party Funding, p. 6.

Proportional to number of seats and votes won.