Presidential election 2015 – second round |12 December 2015

PPBs continue tonight

The two candidates -- James Michel (top) and Wavel Ramkalawan -- in the order they will present their programmes tonight

Party political broadcasts (PPBs) in relation to campaigning for the second round of the presidential election continue tonight on SBC TV and Radyo Sesel.

Parti Lepep’s candidate James Michel will be the first to present his 26-minute programme tonight followed by the Seychelles National Party’s (SNP) candidate Wavel Ramkalawan.

The two parties will close the campaign with a 13-minute programme each on Monday December 14.

The programmes start at 7.30pm on Radyo Sesel and 9pm on television.

The two candidates are contesting this second round after none of the six candidates could pull off the 50% plus one vote for an outright majority in the first round which was held from December 3-5, 2015.

Mr Michel and Mr Ramkalawan will face off in the second round after securing the highest number of votes (28,911 for Mr Michel and 21,391 for Mr Ramkalawan) in the first round.

Voting in this second round will take place from December 16-18, 2015.