Presidential election 2015 |23 November 2015

Second segment of campaign programmes start tonight on SBC radio and TV

The second segment of the candidates’ 26-minute campaign broadcasts for the December 3-5, 2015 presidential election will be on radio and television starting tonight.

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

Tonight’s programmes will feature independent candidate Philippe Boulle and Alexia Amesbury of the Seychelles Party for Social Justice and Democracy (SPSJD).

Tomorrow it will be the turn of David Pierre of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) and Patrick Pillay of the Lalyans Seselwa (LS) to present their programmes.

James Michel of Parti Lepep (PL) and Wavel Ramkalawan of the Seychelles National Party (SNP) will present theirs on Wednesday November 25.

The third and 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: Independent candidate Philippe Boulle and Alexia Amesbury (SPSJD)