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

"During the official campaign period, as prescribed by the law, all presidential candidates were granted free airtime slots to convey their messages on public televisions and radios. Prior to the first round of the election, the eleven candidates were offered a total of 43 minutes in each public broadcast media, while during the last week of the official campaign for the second round the two contestants were granted one-hour of free airtime each."

OSCE/ODIHR (2017) Republic of France, Presidential Election, 23 April and 7 May OSCE/ODIHR Election Expert Team Final Report, OSCE/ODIHR, Warsaw.

For presidential candidates.