Presidential election 2015 |20 November 2015

Campaign programmes continue tonight on SBC radio and TV

Tonight will be the turn of Wavel Ramkalawan of the Seychelles National Party (SNP) and Patrick Pillay of Lalyans Seselwa (LS) to present their campaign programmes on SBC radio and television.

Alexia Amesbury of the Seychelles Party for Social Justice and Democracy (SPSJD), and James Michel of Parti Lepep (PL) will present theirs tomorrow, Saturday November 21.

These campaign programmes in the run-up to the December 3-5 presidential election have been divided into three units of 26 minutes each.

They begin at 7.30pm on SBC’s Radyo Sesel while on SBC TV they start at 9pm.

The other dates of campaign broadcasts are as follows: Monday November 23 (Mr Boulle and Mrs Amesbury), Tuesday November 24 (Mr Pierre and Mr Pillay), Wednesday November 25 (Mr Michel and Mr Ramkalawan).

The last segment of the 26-minute campaign programmes will take place as follows:  Friday November 27 (Mr Pierre and Mr Boulle), Saturday November 28 (Mr Ramkalawan and Mrs Amesbury) and Sunday November 29 (Mr Michel and Mr Pillay).

The campaign on radio and television will close on Tuesday December 1 with a 13-minute party political broadcast (PPB) by each candidate. Mr Michel will start first in the closing 13-minute PPB, followed by Mr Pillay, Mrs Amesbury, Mr Ramkalawan, Mr Pierre and Mr Boullé in that order.

Campaigning in general for the upcoming presidential election will be allowed up to 24 hours before the election is set to begin on December 3, 2015.

The candidates who will present their campaign programmes tonight: Wavel Ramkalawan (SNP) and Patrick Pillay (Lalyans Seselwa)