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Ruling parties have spent more money on advertising

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Participants in the upcoming parliamentary elections have spent more than 2 million euros on media coverage, according to the Institute for Public Environment Development. The parties part of the Volya-NFSB coalition have invested the most, followed by VMRO and GERB, Diana Eftimova from the institute told BNR's Horizont program.

Big TV channels remain the most popular media for political advertising. Less money was spent for advertising in social networks in comparison to electronic and print media. "It is an interesting fact that advertising on Facebook runs not so much through the main party pages or the pages of the leaders of the respective formations, but through the personal pages of candidates," the study shows.




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