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Lydia Yermoshina: candidates for presidency to go on air

At a sitting on February 8 the central election commission /CEC/ will determine the order of using the state mass media in preparing for the presidential elections, CEC chair Lydia Yermoshina has told BelTA. The Election Code of Belarus envisages the right for the election campaign. It stipulates that candidates for the presidency can use radio and TV free air time to deliver their speeches and also can publish their programs, Lydia Yermoshina has reminded. “All state central newspapers should publish election programs of the candidates. The list of publications will be specified by the CEC resolution. Air time should be also determined. All the candidates for the presidency would be provided with an hour airtime on radio and the 1st National Channel”, the CEC chair has noted. Each of them would appear on the air twice. The candidates will deliver their speeches on week-days. Lydia Yermoshina has informed that the election campaign will start immediately after the registration of candidates for the presidency at one of the CEC sittings February 16-19. The election campaign would last till 12.00 p.m. March 18.