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

Article 24 Election campaign via TV and radio

2. The total volume of free air time allocated by the state TV and radio company for the purposes of presidential and Jogorku Kenesh campaigning must be at least one hour on working days. The mentioned free air time should be distributed on an equal basis among the registered candidates and political parties nominating list of candidates that have shown up for broadcast.

Article 25 Election campaign via print media 1. Periodical printed mass media that fall under item 18 of Article 22 hereof and are disseminated in the territory of the elections, except for the newspapers founded by state power bodies and local governments exceptionally for publication of official information and materials, normative and other legal acts, must allocate free space no less than one A 4 format page in print mass media, to candidates and political parties. As for specialized print media (children’s, technical, scientific and others), they may refuse publishing any campaigning materials provided they are fully out of any form of campaigning.

(Constitutional Law of the Kyrgyz Republic On elections of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic and deputies of Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic, 2011, available at http://www.legislationline.org/download/action/download/id/4016/file/Kyrgyz_Const_Law_Presidential_and_parliam_Elections_2011_en.pdf accessed February 2018).