Pre-election campaign kicks off in Belarus

       The pre-election campaign ahead of Belarus' presidential election set for 11 October officially launched on 11 September.
       As we earlier reported, on 10 September the Central Election Commission registered four candidates for Belarus’ presidency, namely Sergei Gaidukevich, Tatiana Korotkevich, Alexander Lukashenko and Nikolai Ulakhovich. The presidential candidates received the corresponding certificates.
Every candidate in Belarus’ presidential election gets two 30-minute sessions of free-of-charge air time on the TV and the Belarusian Radio each. Televised debates of the candidates will take place on 3 October. The candidates will have 60 minutes of air time. Apart from that, the candidates will have a possibility to publish their pre-election programs in some of the Belarusian newspapers free-of-charge.