34. Are there provisions for free or subsidized access to media for candidates?

Election Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 2003 (as amended 2019). https://www.msk.gov.az/uploads/qanunvericilik/Election-code_2020.pdf                                                                    

Public television and radio companies or periodicals that are founded by state bodies and organizations or funded by the state budget shall create equal conditions for registered candidates, political parties, and blocs of political parties to conduct their election campaigns (Art. 77). Presidential candidates; political parties or blocs of political parties with candidates registered in more than 60 single-mandate election constituencies, or in more than half of all municipalities; and referendum campaign groups with 40,000 or more members shall have the right to free airtime for TV and radio companies for election campaigning (Art. 80). Candidates registered in a single-mandate constituency, referendum campaign groups with 20,000 or more members, and political parties or blocs of political parties with candidates registered in more than 1/3 of all municipalities shall have the right to free TV and radio airtime companies for pre-election campaigning (Art. 80). Presidential candidates shall be allotted free air time by TV and radio companies to conduct debates, round tables, and other campaigning activities, the rules of which are defined by the Central Election Commission (Art. 189). TV and radio companies that are founded within the municipal district shall have to create equal conditions for the registered candidate, political parties or blocs of political parties, and referendum campaign groups who are campaigning in the territory of the relevant municipality (Art. 224).