Guidelines - "tribunes libres" (only available in French)
The law of July 22, 2022 amending the amended law of July 27, 1991 on electronic media assigns a new mission to ALIA:
“The Authority’s mission is to draft guiding principles concerning the conditions of production, programming and broadcasting of political information programs reserved for political parties and candidate groupings that audiovisual media service providers entrusted with a public service mission are required to broadcast outside media election campaigns.”
These “free forums” or “tribunes libres” are made up of free airtime made available to political parties. They are presently broadcasted on Mondays, on RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg shortly after 1:00 pm, and on Wednesdays on Radio 100.7 at 12:50 pm. The guidelines for the allocation of speaking time to the various parties are prepared by ALIA. The airtime allocated to each eligible beneficiary is recalculated after each legislative election.
During election periods, no “free forum” or “tribunes libres” programs are broadcast by media entrusted with a public service mission and ALIA’s mission consists of organizing the media election campaigns.