Presidential election 2015 |21 November 2015

SPSJD and Parti Lepep candidates to present their programmes tonight on SBC radio and TV

Alexia Amesbury of the Seychelles Party for Social Justice and Democracy (SPSJD) and James Michel of Parti Lepep (PL) will present their first 26-minute campaign programmes tonight on SBC radio and television.

The candidates are entitled to three 26-minute campaign programmes on radio and television in the run-up to the December 3-5 presidential election.

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

So far David Pierre of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), Independent candidate Philippe Boullé, Patrick Pillay of Lalyans Seselwa (LS) and Wavel Ramkalawan of the Seychelles National Party (SNP) have presented their first 26-minute programme.

The second segments of the campaign broadcasts are as follows: Monday November 23 (Mr Boullé 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 Boullé), 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: Alexia Amesbury (SPSJD) and James Michel (Parti Lepep)