GE2025: 8 parties to deliver TV and radio messages on April 25 and May 1
Eight political parties have been given airtime to deliver their messages on April 25 and May 1. ST PHOTO: SHINTARO TAY
GE2025: 8 parties to deliver TV and radio messages on April 25 and May 1
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Eight political parties contesting in the 2025 General Election will get to deliver their campaign messages on free-to-air television and radio on April 25 and May 1.
The two party political broadcasts (PPBs) for each party - once on television and once on radio - will be carried across six Mediacorp television channels, and 13 Mediacorp, SPH and So Drama! Entertainment radio stations, said the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) on April 24.
Parties may deliver their campaign messages in all or any of the four official languages: English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil.
Only e ight political parties are eligible for the PPBs, it added.
Under guidelines set by the Elections Department (ELD), only political parties that field at least six candidates under a recognised party symbol are eligible for the PPBs.
Independents and political parties fielding fewer than six candidates are not eligible.
The IMDA said the duration of airtime earmarked for each political party will be based on the number of candidates it fielded.
The allocated airtime will be the same for the two broadcasts for each political party, it said.
The order of the PPBs on television and radio will be determined by the number of candidates fielded by the parties, starting with the party with the least number of candidates, and ending with the one that has the largest number of candidates.
The National Solidarity Party, People's Power Party and Singapore Democratic Party have each been allocated four minutes of airtime per language during each PPB, the IMDA said.
The People's Alliance for Reform, Progress Singapore Party and Red Dot United will each have five minutes , while the Workers' Party has been allocated six minutes per language per broadcast.
The People's Action Party has been allocated 14 minutes per language per PBB.
Details of the PBBs are as follows:
The duration of airtime earmarked for each political party will be based on the number of candidates it fielded.
PHOTO: IMDA
The party political broadcasts will be carried across six Mediacorp television channels, and 13 Mediacorp, SPH and So Drama! Entertainment radio stations
PHOTO: IMDA
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