A form of indirect state assistance is to provide free or subsidised access to eligible candidates to (often state controlled) media. This is normally intended to help level the playing and allowing eligible candidates to make their message heard.
Code “YES” if candidates are entitled to free or subsidised access to public or private TV, radio, newspaper or other media, regardless of whether this is in relation to election campaigns or not. Note details in an external comment. A provision that media outlets should treat candidates without bias would not be relevant for this question. Add details as external comments, for example if media access is extended not only to public but also to private media). Information about this issue is sometimes not listed together with general political party or campaign finance provisions; sometimes it is regulated in an electoral law (or similar) in paragraphs that relate to the role of media in elections. Code “NO” if you find information about political party finance and media in elections but there is no information of such benefits. If you judge that there may likely be regulations you have not been able to access about this issue, code “ND”.
