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Allocation Of Election Broadcasting Funds
19 June 2002
The Electoral Commission today announced its allocations of election broadcasting time and funds to political parties for next month’s general election.
In making the announcement the Commission noted that the $2.081 million (including GST) provided for allocation had not changed since the 1990 election.
Parties are not permitted to spend their own funds in buying broadcasting time
The two biggest parties, the New Zealand Labour Party and the New Zealand National Party, will equally share more than half of the money to be allocated.
In total,14 parties will receive an allocation of money for broadcasting election programmes on radio and television. Some also receive free time for opening and closing addresses on TVNZ and Radio New Zealand.
Parties are allowed to broadcast their election programmes between Writ Day (25 June) and midnight on 26 July (the day before Election Day).
The individual allocations are as follows:
ELECTORAL
COMMISSION
2002 GENERAL ELECTION
Allocations to political parties of money for all or part of the costs of broadcasting election programmes and of free time for opening and closing addresses on Television One and National Radio
Order of opening
and closing addresses
The order of the opening addresses will be as follows:
Friday 28 June (TVNZ: between 7.30pm and 8.30pm; RNZ: between 8.05pm and 9pm)
New Zealand
Labour Party
The New Zealand National Party
The
Greens, The Green Party of Aotearoa/New Zealand
New
Zealand First
ACT New Zealand
Saturday 29 June (TVNZ: between 7pm and 7.30pm; RNZ: between 7.05 and 7.30pm)
The
Alliance
Christian Heritage Party
United Future New
Zealand
Outdoor Recreation New Zealand
Aotearoa
Legalise Cannabis Party
The order of the closing addresses will be as follows:
Friday 26 July (TVNZ:
between 7.30pm and 8pm; RNZ: between 8.05pm and
8.30pm)
The New Zealand National Party
New Zealand
Labour Party
ACT New Zealand
New Zealand
First
The Greens, The Green Party of Aotearoa/New
Zealand
The Alliance
United Future New
Zealand
Christian Heritage Party
Aotearoa Legalise
Cannabis Party
Outdoor Recreation New Zealand
TVNZ will broadcast non-political advertising between blocks of opening addresses and between blocks of closing addresses.
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