The newspaper will devote a full page to each candidate – containing a profile, policy statement and answers to several questions – in special supplements published in the first week of June.
Each candidate will also be invited to take part in a one-on-one interview with senior reporter Matt Fallaize which will be broadcast in video and audio form on the Guernsey Press website and Politics Podcast feed.
‘We’ve been committed to raising the profile of the election and providing the best coverage that we can in the run-up to polling day and beyond, and we’ve been doing that for weeks now,’ said Guernsey Press editor James Falla.
‘I’m confident that our plans will give unrivalled coverage for candidates and the issues and be some of the best help that voters can get to make up their minds.’
This week the paper will conclude its 10-part series looking back on the big issues of the current States term.
For five days from Monday it will publish double-page features providing readers with a year-by-year guide to how deputies voted in the most important debates since the Assembly’s first meeting in October 2020.
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Two editions of the Guernsey Press Politics Podcast will go out each week during the five-week campaign and the paper will be reporting on voters’ questions and candidates’ answers at several hustings and other election events.
Reporters will continue to cover political news stories unrelated to the election, keeping an eye on what States committees and members are up to in their final few weeks in office.
The opinion pages of the paper and website will carry columns from a range of contributors, including political watchers, third sector and business leaders, former deputies, the paper’s own writers, and others.
Plans are being developed for live broadcasts once polls have closed on 18 June until after votes have been counted the following day and the result declared.
‘We would have committed to arranging hustings meetings, but once it became clear that the BBC had plans to do similar, we didn’t think it would be attractive or practical to have sessions effectively in competition with each other,’ said Mr Falla.
‘I expect that our one-on-one interviews with candidates, in video and podcast form, will do an even better job than we had originally intended.’
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