CEC sets the schedule of providing air time to the election campaign
02.05.2009 15:46

Lena Badeyan
`Radiolur’

The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) convened a special sitting
today, during which it determined the procedure and schedule of
providing air time for the election campaign of the elections to the
Yerevan City Council on Public Television and Public Radio. Thus, at
the suggestion of the Council of Public Television and Radio Company,
the CEC decided to provide every political force with 30 minutes free
and up to 50 minutes of paid air time on Public TV.

The Public Radio will provide 50 minutes free and up to 80 minutes of
paid air time. It’s worth mentioning that during each day of the
election campaign the political forces running for the Yerevan City
Council will have to use the air time allocated to them, CEC Secretary
Abram Bakhchagulyan informed.

The CEC has also fixed the time frame for the election campaign. The
campaign will start at 13:30 on Public radio and from 17:15 on Public
TV. Representative of the Armenian National Congress Patvakan
Hovakimyan was dissatisfied with the decision. He gave clarifications
to `Radiolur’

`Our main concern is that during the above mentioned period most of the
electors are at work, i.e. they have no opportunity to get better
informed of the platforms presented by the candidates,’ Patvakan
Hovakimyan said