(1) The access of political parties, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, political alliances and electoral alliances that submit full lists of candidates in at least 23 electoral constituencies shall have free access to the national public radio and television broadcasting services, including the territorial studios thereof. The broadcasting time shall be granted after the candidatures remain final and must be proportional to the number of full lists of candidatures submitted and shall be calculated by the Romanian Television Corporation and the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company within 24 hours from the receipt of the data communicated by the Central Electoral Bureau.*

(2) The organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities that submit their candidatures to the Central Electoral Bureau, according to the provisions of Article 54 paragraph (2) shall have access to the territorial and national public radio and television broadcasting services, if they participate in the elections with lists of candidates in the electoral constituencies of counties and proportionately to their weight in the total population of that county, respectively of Romania.*

(3) Until the broadcasting time is calculated, according to the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2), the political parties, and the organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities having as members at least 7 senators or 10 deputies or which have obtained parliamentary representation in the previous electoral campaign shall be granted broadcasting time proportionately to the number of the parliamentary members.*

(4) The access of political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances, as well as of independent candidates and organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities to private radio and television stations, including cable television, shall be done in the same price conditions for all electoral competitors, only during the electoral shows, according to Article 67.

(5) Buying broadcasting time for publicity purposes, as well as for and on behalf of the participants in the electoral campaign, or the transfer of broadcasting time to candidates by public or private capital trading companies, public institutions, non-governmental organisations, or natural persons is forbidden.

(6) Political parties, political alliances and electoral alliances, in-dependent candidates, as well as organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities must apply for broadcasting time no later than 40 days before the election date, with the management of the public and private radio and television stations, or, as the case may be, of their territorial stations. The applications filed after this deadline shall be disregarded.

(7) The broadcasting time with the public and private radio and television stations, including cable television, shall be granted to political parties, political alliances and electoral alliances, or to organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities taking part in the elections on each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Each independent candidate shall be entitled to a broadcasting time, at the territorial stations, of 5 minutes at most, summed up for the entire duration of the electoral campaign.

(8) The shows broadcast within the broadcasting time granted to each political party, political alliance and electoral alliance, to independent candidates and organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities shall be live or recorded, in the proportions decided upon by them.

(9) During the electoral shows, it is forbidden to combine colours, graphical signs or sounds evoking the national symbols of Romania or some other state.

* Amended by Law No. 91/2020.