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

"(1) ... Non-parliamentary political parties, political alliances and electoral alliances who submit complete lists of candidates in at least 23 electoral districts have free access to national public broadcasting and television services. ...
(2) The organizations of citizens belonging to national minorities shall have access to the territorial and national public broadcasting and television services if they participate in elections with lists of candidates in the electoral districts of the counties and in proportion to their share in the total population of the county, respectively of Romania.
(3) Until the calculation of the airtimes, according to par. (1) and (2), parliamentary political parties, their alliances and citizens' organizations belonging to national minorities represented in Parliament shall receive airtimes in proportion to their parliamentary representation."

Source: Article 68 (1), (2), (3) and (7), Law no. 208/2015 on the elections to the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, 2015

"(1) The access to public radio and television services for the candidates to the position of President of Romania shall be equal and free of charge."

Source: Article 36 (1), The Law no. 370 of September 20, 2004 for the election of the President of Romania, (republished in 2011, as of June 27, 2014)