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G u a t e m a l a 9. OTHER RESTRICTIONS ON THE CONTENT
OF INFORMATION Several norms that pertain to information contained in advertising
and in news coverage are now evident. Article 219 establishes the freedom of electoral advertising
with no other limitations than those acts that offend morality,
affect the right to private property or the public order. Article
221, states that any political party, or coalition of political
parties, legally registered for an electoral process has the right
to thirty minutes of air time per week in the State-owned radio
and television stations in order to make its political program known.
Matters that pertain to this article shall be regulated by a set
of norms. 67 According to Article 223: ?During an electoral process it is
forbidden to: a) Paste or paint campaign
material on statues, walls, street signals, signs, bridges and monuments,
unless it is private property and the owner has given his consent; b) Use a vehicle of any
kind, equipped with speakers for the purposes of campaigning, before
seven in the morning and after eight in the evening; c) Carry out any type
of campaigning or electoral poll the day of the election and during
the thirty six hours prior to it.? 68
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