The 6 November parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan did not meet a number of OSCE and Council of Europe standards and commitments for democratic elections

The OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission (EOM) monitored six TV channels (State-funded AzTV and ITV, Private Lider TV, Space, ATV and ANS) and five daily newspapers (State Azerbaijan, Respublika, Khalq, Private Yeni Musavat, Zerkalo) , using a well-established methodology of quantitative and qualitative analysis. The monitoring exercise ran for the whole period of the official campaign, from 7 September through the start of the “media silence” on 5 November. The OSCE/ODIHR EOM sought to evaluate whether the media provided impartial and balanced coverage of political contestants and campaign issues. The monitoring of the media was supervised and conducted by Rasto Kuzel of MEMO 98.

Quantitative analysis measured the total amount of time and space devoted to election contestants on news and information programs. Qualitative analysis evaluated the tone in which the relevant political subjects were portrayed – positive, neutral or negative.

Explanation on the charts

• The pie charts show the total percentage of airtime or space allocated to relevant political subjects for each media outlet in the defined period.
• The bar charts show the total number of hours and minutes of positive (green), neutral (white) and negative (red) airtime devoted to relevant political subjects by each media outlet in the defined period.

Media monitoring results

More information about the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission to Republic of Azerbaijan.

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 Diagrams -- TVs
 Diagrams -- press