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

Art 116 ‘All radio and television stations are obliged to to give equal treatment to the various applications.’

Art 117.1 ‘During the election campaign periods for the legislative and presidential elections, radio stations television broadcasting, regardless of its scope or their ownership, they shall, free of charge, competitors to presidential and party elections politicians or coalitions competing for legislative elections which present themselves in a minimum of five constituencies, the following antenna times: (…)’

Art 117.3 and art 117.4’3. The airtime reserved for the electoral campaign for the elections of the Members of the National Assembly are broken down by political parties or party coalitions competitors in proportion to the number of candidates represented by them, according to the formula TxN in that T designates the available daily C time, C the sum of candidates submitted by all political parties and N is the number of those specifically proposed by each party or coalition. 4. The airtime reserved for the electoral campaign for the elections of the President of the Republic are equally distributed by all the candidates.’

(Source Codigo Eleitoral 2010)