32. Are there provisions for free or subsidized access to media for political parties?

'During the electoral campaign, the Public Radio and Television provides to
registered political parties and to the CEC free airtime for campaigning, which is allocated according to the following rules:
a) a total of two hours is provided to the CEC according to the time slots it requests. At least two-thirds of this time shall be between 18:00 and 22:00;
b) for parliamentary parties that received more than 20 per cent of the seats in the last elections to the Assembly, the CEC allocates equal airtime of no less than 30
minutes on the Public Television and the same airtime on the Public Radio; for the rest of the parliamentary parties, this airtime is no less than 15 minutes. If airtime is increased for one party or one respective coalition, the time allotted to another party or coalition shall be proportionally increased;
c) each party that does not hold a seat in the Assembly, but runs in elections is allocated 10 minutes of airtime on the Public Television and 10 minutes of airtime on the Public Radio;
ç) the respective electoral subject must be clearly identifiable on any political programme or advertisement for purposes of electoral propaganda. If the political
programme or advertisement is not clearly identifiable, the CEC orders the immediate suspension of its broadcast until the subject is rendered identifiable according to the requirements in this point.
2. The Public Radio and Television covers the electoral campaign through news or informative programmes in compliance with the principles of impartiality, completeness, truthfulness, and pluralism of information set forth in the legislation that regulates electronic media. The free airtime allocated to political parties in accordance with point 1 of this article may not be allocated as part of news or information programming.
3. The Public Radio and Television broadcasts free political advertising by calculating the broadcasting time within the allocated airtime in accordance with point 1 of this article.
4. During the electoral campaign, advertisements of central and local public institutions are prohibited except for those serving to raise the awareness of voters on
election-related aspects and/or other announcements envisaged by law".  Source : Article 80, The Electoral Code of the Republic of Albania, 2015. 

"Exceptionally stipulations of the Electoral Code, during the election campaign for the 2017 Assembly elections, National, local or satellite radio and television stations are obliged to make available free of charge to electoral subjects for political advertising, Respectively only 90 minutes for the largest party of the parliamentary majority and the largest party of the parliamentary minority, 45 minutes for the other parliamentary parties and 10 minutes for the non-parliamentary parties. Political parties and any other subjects are prohibited from making political advertisements versus payment during the election campaign. The cost of making available free time to electoral subjects is calculated as a full deductible tax expense. The Central Election Commission, the Audiovisual Media Authority
and the Minister of Finance are charged to issue the relevant instruction".  Source : Article 24/5, Law on Political Parties, 2017.