GE2025: Eight parties to deliver campaign messages in political broadcasts
Political party broadcast recordings for GE2025 to be broadcast on Apr 25. Top, left to right: Red Dot United's Ravi Philemon, People's Action Party's Lawrence Wong, Workers' Party's Pritam Singh and National Solidarity Party's Fong Chin Leong. Bottom, left to right: People's Alliance for Reform's Lim Tean, Progress Singapore Party's Tan Cheng Bock, Singapore Democratic Party's Alfred Tan and People's Power Party's Vere Nathan Shen Li. (Photos: CNA/Lan Yu)
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SINGAPORE: Singaporeans will be able to watch and listen to 2025 General Election campaign messages from eight political parties during two party political broadcasts on free-to-air TV and radio, with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) allocating airtime for this.
The first broadcast will air on Friday (Apr 25), and the second on May 1.
They will be carried across six Mediacorp TV channels and 13 Mediacorp, SPH and So Drama! Entertainment radio stations.
The parties may deliver their campaign messages in all or any of the four official languages: English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil.
Only political parties that are fielding at least six candidates under a recognised party symbol are eligible for the broadcasts, said IMDA on Thursday.
Independents and political parties fielding fewer than six candidates under the same recognised party symbol are not eligible, it added.
This means that the Singapore People's Party, Singapore United Party and Singapore Democratic Alliance will not be able to broadcast their messages.
The eligible parties have been allotted between four minutes and 14 minutes of airtime.
The duration of the airtime allocated to each political party was based on the number of candidates it is fielding in the election, with the airtime for both broadcasts being the same, IMDA said.
The National Solidarity Party, People's Power Party and Singapore Democratic Party will each have four minutes of airtime per language for the broadcasts.
The People's Alliance for Reform, Progress Singapore Party and Red Dot United have been allocated five minutes each.
The Workers' Party will have six minutes, and the People's Action Party has been allocated 14 minutes.
The parties' messages will air in an order determined by the number of candidates they are fielding.
They will begin with the party fielding the smallest number of candidates, and end with the party fielding the largest number of candidates.
The order is as follows:
- National Solidarity Party
- People's Power Party
- Singapore Democratic Party
- People's Alliance for Reform
- Progress Singapore Party
- Red Dot United
- Workers' Party
- People's Action Party
Mediacorp will provide comprehensive coverage of the 2025 General Election across all its platforms.
Viewers will be able to catch the party political broadcasts, which air at various timings between 8pm and 11.45pm on Apr 25, and 8pm and 10pm on May 1, via a variety of platforms including television and radio channels, as well as YouTube and Facebook, mewatch and melisten.
CNA will be streaming the party political broadcasts on its YouTube channel at 8pm on Apr 25 and May 1.
