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

Art 39.

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Equal conditions of access to Mass Media are guaranteed to candidates and political parties.

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Each candidate to deputies in the single mandate district has right to 20 minutes and each political party has the right to have 40 minutes airtime in the state radio and TV. 

(Constitutional Law of the Republic of Tajikistan, On Elections to the Majlisi Oli of the Republic of Tajikistan, 1999, available at http://base.mmk.tj/view_sanadhoview.php?showdetail=&sanadID=6 accessed January 2018).

Art 15:

State authority bodies of the Republic of Tajikistan render support the registered political party:

-providing the equal access to state mass media;

-ensuring equality of opportunities for holding election campaigns.

In case of suspension of party's activities in accordance with the provisions of article 21 of this Law, the government support will be temporary suspended.

In case of the ban on political party activities, from the date of the decision of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tajikistan on banning party's activity, the government support will be stopped.  

(Law of the Republic of Tajikistan on Political Parties, 1998, available at http://base.mmk.tj/view_sanadhoview.php?showdetail=&sanadID=58, accessed January 2018).

Registered parties