Second post-election report on media coverage of political scene in
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Second post-election report on media coverage of political scene in
Second post-election report on media coverage of political scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina Released on 24 December 2014 Media Plan, an independent, non-partisan organization dedicated to freedom of expression and the media, has been systematically monitoring the media coverage of the political scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina prior to the October general elections and beyond. Media Plan seeks to evaluate the level of diversity in monitored media’ political news reporting.1 The main objective of the project is to inform the public about the conduct of the media in providing objective and unbiased coverage and to initiate a discussion about professional standards. The project is supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the UK Government, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and the European Union. The findings have so far been compiled into four monitoring reports about the media’s behavior during the election campaign as well as the media coverage of post-election developments, including the process of forming the new governments on the state and entity levels of administration. The methodology was developed by the Slovak media-monitoring organization MEMO 98. 2 The previous monitoring reports can be found at: http://www.mediaplan.ba/en/?ID=142. Following is the summary of the main monitoring findings covering the period (1 – 30 November): EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Unlike during the pre-election period when the coverage of political parties in the news programs was limited, all monitored media reported intensively on the political parties in the news during November. Similar to the pre-election period, some monitored outlets continued to show their open sympathies towards particular political subjects. Most monitored media reported intensively on negotiations between various parties to form governments on all levels, including the SDA-DF-SzP agreement 1 2 The monitoring is intended to offer professional, comprehensive, and objective assessment of political diversity, accuracy, and balance in news and current affairs coverage on seven television channels, five newspapers, and two online media outlets. Monitored media Television: BHTV1, FTV, RTRS, NTV Hayat, TV BN, TV1, and ATV Newspapers: Glas Srpske, Nezavisne novine, Oslobodjenie, Večernji list, and Dnevni avaz Web portals: Frontal, and Klix Given its comprehensive content-oriented approach, the methodology is specially designed to provide in-depth feedback on pluralism and diversity in media reporting, including coverage of chosen subjects and themes. The outcome of the monitoring is not just a set of data, but a detailed analysis and evaluation of the current level of political diversity in media reporting, examined in the proper context, and incorporating concrete comparisons and analysis. For more information on the methodology, see also the first monitoring report at: http://www.mediaplan.ba/docs/2014FirstPreliminaryReportEN.pdf Main findings The media monitoring results for the period of 1 – 30 November showed that the media in general focused on forming the governments at all levels election results, providing detailed reporting on negotiations amongts political parties. In addition, some media provided analysis of these processes and also predictions on these coalitions. Unlike during the pre-election period when the news coverage suffered from restrictive interpretation of legal provisions on the part of broadcasters which resulted in a limited coverage of political parties in the news, the news coverage of the post-election period has been characterized by an intensive coverage of political parties. The media continue to be divided along political, ethinic and territorial lines and thus show their more or less open symphaties towards certain political parties. TELEVISION All monitored TV stations dedicated the bulk of their coverage to political entities which were featured to a much greater extent than during the period of election campaign when the media focus was on the activities of state officials. More coverage was devoted to the parties which have been involved in attempts to form governments on both state and entity level. As for the topics and issues covered by the monitored channels, the most covered topic was the negotiations between parties on forming of new governments (especially in Republika Srpska where series of accusations and insults were recorded between the two main political blocks). The monitoring team also noted that there were a number of news items critical towards both the incumbent as well as the future government in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the slow process of its formation. In particular, such critical coverage was seen on BHT, FTV, TV Hayat, TV1, ATV and TV BN. Public service broadcasters Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BHT), Daily News at 19:00 In November, BHT reported intensively on negotiations between political entities, creation of coalitions and forming of governments on state, entity and cantonal level. The reporting was balanced overall with statements and viewpoints of all relevant actors involved in the formation of governments. The election winners - the SNSD and the SDA (receiving respectively 13 per cent) and the HDZ (11per cent) - were the most covered political entities. The tone of the coverage was mainly neutral and positive. Apart from providing factual reporting on negotiations between political parties, BHT offered its viewers with views and interpretations of the current events through comments and statement from experts and analysts. On several occasions, BHT presented critical viewpoints vis-à-vis the effectiveness of the agreement signed between the SDA, the DF and the HDZ BiH. For example, on 19 November the following views were presented in a news item: “The SDA, HDZ and DF have reached a framework agreement on working principles for the establishment and functioning of government in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement does not contain any facts indicating that the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina will be formed in any near future.” In addition, some analysts who commented on the process of forming of the government between these three utterly different political parties expressed their doubt in the long-term effectiveness and sustainability of such government. Federal Television (FTV), Daily News at 19:30 During November, FTV dedicated the bulk of its coverage to the results of the general elections, government forming on both state and entity levels and post-elections coalitions in both the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska. In comparison with the election campaign, FTV covered a greater diversity of political subjects with the biggest attention given to the winners. The most covered party was the SDA with 14 per cent, followed by the HDZ BiH (12 per cent), the DF (11 per cent) and the SNSD (10 per cent). The SDP, which received substantial coverage after the elections (due to its defeat and party’s internal upheaval), was given only a minor coverage (3 per cent against 22 per cent in October). The tone of the coverage was predominantly neutral or positive. On 9 November, FTV featured signing of an agreement concerning the state-level cooperation between the SDA, the DF and the Alliance for Changes. The tone of the report was positive because it featured principles that are supposed to bring prosperity to Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, between the first and second news item, FTV showed Željko Komšić (DF) and Dragan Čavić (NDP) who were both shown for some 12 minutes. The news presenter posed provocative questions such as – “Have you started being coalition partners from this evening?”. On 22 November, FTV broadcast an item on Milorad Dodik’s meeting with Momčilo Krajišnik, a convicted war criminal, with the following critical statement: “In his efforts to get MPs to join his coalition, the president of the SNSD found enough time to receive a convicted war criminal”. In terms of institutions, the biggest coverage went to the Federation Government (5 per cent) which was mainly neutral or negative. This was due to the reporting about Zoran Mikulić, the Federal Minister of Justice (on 18 and 20 November) who allowed Duško Zorić (a person held in suspicion for war crimes in Prijedor) to go on his annual leave despite knowing that the Prosecutor’s Office was planning to indict him with new charges. After this, nobody was able to track Zorić down. Radio Television of Republika Srpska (RTRS), Daily News at 19:30 While unlike in the pre-election period, RTRS devoted more coverage to the opposition parties as well as parties from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the SNSD still remained the most covered party (with 18 per cent of the coverage). The next most covered entities were the institutions controlled by the SNSD – the President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik (14 per cent) and the Government of Republika Srpska (8 per cent). The tone of their coverage was mainly neutral or positive. The HZD party received 8 per cent of the coverage in connection with the statements by Dragan Čović when he declared cooperation with the SNSD in forming the state-level coalition. While the SDS received as much as 7 percent of the coverage (more than during the election campaign), almost half of this coverage was negative. RTRS featured news items containing regular (sometimes even vulgar) arguments between the SNSD, the Alliance for Changes and the SDA.3 3 On 11 November, RTRS featured an item in which the Vice President of the NDP Dragan Čavić and the PDP’s party member Igor Crnadak commented on the agreement between the SDA, the DF and the Alliance for Changes. Both of them expressed an opinion that this agreement would not affect the existence of RS. Noticeably, Bakir Izetbegović’s statement that “People from the Alliance for Changes are ready to take a step forward that will stabilize Bosnia and Herzegovina“ was featured twice in this news item. Igor Crnadak stated that he did not see anything problematic with it, while the Vice President of the NDP Dragan Čavić said the following: „Could you please find it in here? How did you say it? Stabilizing and strengthening On 10 November, the RS President Milorad Dodik commented on the agreement between the SDA, the DF and the Alliance for Changes by saying that this supported integral Bosnia and Herzegovina, thus negating the existence of Republika Srpska, for which the SNSD was struggling for. On 14 November, RTRS reported on the parties that were going to constitute majority in the National Assembly of Republika Srpska. In this news item, President Milorad Dodik said that the opposition in Republika Srpska had schizophrenia. In another item on the agreement reached between the SDA, the DF and the Alliance for Changes, Nikola Špirić, (member of the SNSD) was shown commenting it with the following words: “Pants full of shit cannot hide their own smell.” Similarly, commenting on the same topic, Milorad Dodik on 15 November said: “Every day, Bakir Izetbegović has to read the Islamic Declaration written by his father, in order to know what he is supposed to do on that day.” After the SNSD’s decision not to partake in the state level government, such comments from Milorad Dodik and the SNSD against the SDA and the Serbian opposition parties ceased to appear in the news. Private TV stations TV 1, Daily News at 19:00 The most covered political entities were the parties that won the elections – the SNSD, the SDA and the HDZ BiH (14, 13 and 10 per cent respectively). In addition, the SDS too received some significant coverage (8 per cent). This was due to the fact that TV1 broadcast a number of items on forming of the governments. While the coverage of the SDA and HDZ BiH was mainly neutral and positive, the coverage of the SNSD was mainly neutral and negative. This was also the case for the coverage of the President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik. For example, on 26 November, TV1 broadcast an item on Milorad Dodik, who, after swearing an oath in the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, went along with several MPs to a church and swore and oath before God. This, according to TV1 (and some other media outlets) normally does not happen in this part of the world. Commenting on this event, analyst Suad Kurtčehajić stated: “This can be irritating. So what? Should Bosniak MPs in this smaller entity go to a mosque? One should take into consideration the sensibility of the area in which events take place. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country that is equally divided into Islamic and Christian culture, and therefore I think that this is not a very prudent act. This should be a private matter of every individual. If this practice were to take place in Sarajevo, it would irritate both the Serbs and the Croats. NTV Hayat, News at 19:00 The SDA was the most featured party in the NTV Hayat’s news with 16 per cent coverage, followed by the parties that constitute the state and entity government – the SNSD (10 per cent), the DF and the HDZ BiH (9 per cent respectively). The tone of their coverage was mostly neutral and positive because leaders of political parties used the opportunity to make new promises. The SNSD was the only party to receive neutral and negative coverage. However, potential future government also received some negative references, mostly through the statements of political analysts. For example, on 5 November, analyst Esad Bajtal spoke about the SDA – HDZ BiH coalition. “This coalition was found on self-interest. They want to protect their political and private interests and that is the basis of their coalition.” Another political analyst Almir Terzić of Bosnia and Herzegovina? Bakir makes his own interpretations for the sake of Bosniaks’ public opinion. I suppose you trust me more than you trust Bakir Izetbegović? You come from a Serbian TV station. “ also commented: “I think that this coalition will only distribute positions of directors in numerous institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and nothing more.” On 9 November, NTV Hayat reported on the SDA-DF-Alliance for Changes agreement, broadcasting statements by various politicians - Bakir Izetbegović said: “You could say that the DF and the SDA have almost common perspective in terms of priorities, stabilization of public finances, and reduction of public spending on all levels of government.” A statement from Željko Komšić: “We talked about something that was actually very specific. Believe it or not, nobody mentioned the distribution of positions. The intention was to show people in Bosnia and Herzegovina that there is hope for this country, and that things can be done differently.” Mladen Bosić said: “We immediately agreed that we should move from the stage of conflict politics to a stage of mutual interests and agreement. We consider that it would be very good to constitute the government in Bosnia and Herzegovina as soon as possible in order to unblock the processes that were blocked in the past eight years, in all aspects of life.” Alternative Television (ATV), News at 19:00 The most covered political entities on ATV news were two strongest parties from RS, the SNSD and the SDS (with 23 and 14 per cent respectively). While the tone of the SDS coverage was mainly neutral and positive in tone, the presentation of the SNSD was mainly neutral and negative. The negative coverage for the SNSD is the result of statements issued by its political rivals. For example, on 23 November, Mladen Bosić criticized Milorad Dodik for breaking the unity of Serbian parties in Sarajevo, when he pushed the SDS out of the coalition: “What are you thinking right now? After what happened, we are not going to join someone who is going to stab us in the back at our most difficult moments. The SNSD destroyed our trust. Milorad Dodik did not even try to say that he was sorry and that she should not have done it. Back then he said that he had more success defending the interests of Republika Srpska with the HDZ and the SDP, than the SDS.” Although the tone of reporting was mostly neutral, journalists sometimes expressed their own criticism in the form of comments against long and exhaustive process of parties’ negotiations. “The saga called forming of government at state level of Bosnia and Herzegovina is continuing.” (13 November) “Media war between Bakir Izetbegović and Milorad Dodik continues.”(21 November). On a regular basis, ATV aired news reports featuring social issues that stressed that the citizens are the ones suffering because of the politicians. “Next week, negotiations on parliamentary majority could reach its flash point, whereas the citizens wanted to see their radiators reaching the flash point. Winter is at our doorstep and politics does not keep the houses warm.”(2 November) “While surgeons are struggling with stents to save lives, the politicians are too busy counting other politicians and struggling for power as if their life was on the line.” (23 November) BN TV, Daily News 2 at 19:30 TV BN allocated most of its coverage to the SDS (19 per cent) and the SNSD (14 per cent), followed by the SDS’s two coalitions partners, the NDP and the PDP with 10 and 9 percent of the coverage, respectively. While the coverage of the SDS was mainly neutral and positive, the coverage of the SNSD was mainly negative and neutral. The dominant presence of the Alliance for Changes in the ATV news programs’ is continuation of the trend detected in the monitoring of the election campaign. As for the coverage of state institutions, the RS government and the RS president received 10 per cent respectively. While the coverage of the RS president was mainly neutral and positive, the coverage of the RS government was mainly negative. As for the coverage of parties and entities from the BiH Federation, the SDA and the HDZ received respectively 4 per cent of the coverage. Milorad Dodik was featured positively when speaking about his coalition as well as about his reelection. He was also featured positively in instances when journalists were reading press releases on his recent activities. However, no politician featured by TV BN said anything positive about the RS president, with the exception of Dragan Čović, president of the HDZ. “I hold Mr. Dodik in highest esteem, being a person I have talked and worked with for the past 15 years. Mr. Dodik is a politician with extensive skill and experience. His election results are what they are. Someone can dispute him in different ways, but I am sure that he has enough capacities to form a government in RS and I think that it’s clear to anyone that a state level government cannot function without him.” (11 November) However, right after that, a statement from Dragan Čavić (NDP) ensued: „The only consistent policy from Milorad Dodik is his political inconsistency. He is such an incredible political jester.” Incidentally, for the entire duration of November, there were series of comments by Dodik’s rivals from the Alliance for Changes on his alleged political inconsistency, crime, tough economic situation in RS, for which, as stated, he is considered responsible. NEWSPAPERS Glas Srpske continued with its practice to publish mainly stories related to the RS with a very few articles regarding federal or state level of government. As in the previous period, two dominant subjects were the SNSD (26 per cent) and the RS Government (21 per cent). As elections are over, it was notable that Glas Srpske wrote less about political parties, but the SNSD was still dominant in its reporting. The tone towards the SNSD was mainly neutral and the tone towards the RS Government was neutral and positive. However, Glas Srpske did publish some articles that had negative tone towards the BiH Federation (such as article “Federations Stops BiH Progress Towards EU” on 7 November which wrote about all negative aspects of BiH as a state). It is also notable that tone towards most of the political institutions was neutral, while the tone towards certain political parties (mainly those coming from the BiH Federation and opposition parties from RS) was negative and neutral. Articles with negative tone toward political parties were those that were mainly related to political parties from both entities that signed agreement on forming the government on the state level. This agreement was portrayed as something bad for both the RS and Serbs, and in such articles statements of RS leaders (Milorad Dodik and Nebojša Radmanović) were quoted. Milorad Dodik in general was the most quoted and most represented person in Glas Srpske in November, and there was no day in November without a statement of Dodik in Glas Srpske. As such, we may say that Glas Srpske continued the same trend of reporting as in the pre-election period. Nezavisne novine did report on diverse political subjects, so no party had predominant position. However, the most presented were the SNSD (14 per cent), the HDZ BIH (11 per cent) and the SDA (11 per cent). While the tone towards the SNSD was mainly positive and neutral, the coverage of the SDA was mainly neutral and negative. Milorad Dodik was dominant figure that was present in Nezavisne novine, commenting both political situation in RS (12 November - two pages article on how RS was prosperous and stabile during his mandate) and international presence in BiH (14 November - commenting HR Valentin Inzko and his engagement in BiH). On 13 November, Nezavisne novine started with survey “Choosing the best minister in RS”, which is not finished yet. Oslobođenje continued its reporting on political parties in post-election time mostly through covering daily events and commenting them in columns by Oslobođenje journalists. Three most covered political parties were the HDZ (17 per cent), the SDP (16 per cent) and the SNSD (10 per cent). While the tone of the HDZ BiH coverage was mainly positive and negative, the tone of the SNSD coverage was mainly negative and neutral. The SDP’s coverage was mainly positive and neutral. The SDA was the fourth most presented party (9 per cent) and the tone of its coverage was overwhelmingly neutral and positive. Milorad Dodik and Dragan Čović were the dominant persons especially in the columns and comments and tone towards them was mainly negative. Josip Vričko in his column on 19 November mentioned Dodik in a very sarcastic way, connecting him with Vojislav Šešelj (Title: “Dodik and Šešelj – Natural Allies”). The SDA-DFSzP agreement, election of the SDP president and relations between Dragan Čović and Milorad Dodik were three dominant topics in this month. Večernji list – HDZ BiH was the most presented political party (22per cent) with mainly neutral or positive tone. It is interesting that, although Večernji list reported on different political parties in this post-election time (percentages were small, but diversity was present), the only political party to received negative coverage was the HDZ 1990, direct political opponent of HDZ BIH. Dragan Čović on 17 November had an interview in Večernji list. An interesting fact was that since Milorad Dodik and Dragan Čović established a coalition, Večernji list started paying more attention to Dodik, the SNSD and in general the RS political parties. These parties and their representatives received more attention now than in the pre-election campaign. Ognjen Tadić (SDS) had an interview on 13 November, Željka Cvijanović (the SNSD) was present in Večernji list on 17 November etc. Dnevni avaz mainly reported on the coalition agreements that were in place and on a postelection political scene. The SDA was still the most dominant party (20 per cent) with mainly negative or neutral tone. However, the interesting fact was that Bakir Izetbegović was not the dominant SDA person in Dnevni avaz any more (which was the case in pre-election campaign). Instead, Dnevni avaz reported mainly local SDA politicians who were presented negatively (such as mayors of two Sarajevo municipalities Nedzad Koldžo and Semir Efendić who are the SDA members and who were portrayed as incompetent to solve citizen’s problems in these municipalities). The SDP was present in 10 per cent of articles, mainly in negative tone and the dominant topic was election of the SDP president. The SBB was present in 7 per cent of articles, all in positive or neutral tone. However, Fahrudin Radončić was not as present as in the election campaign. The most presented person from the SBB in Dnevni Avaz was Ibrahim Hadžibajrić the mayor of Stari Grad Sarajevo municipality (trend of positive reporting on SBB and negative on SDA continued, however, now on the local government level). WEB MEDIA Frontal.rs continued with the same trend of reporting as in the pre-election campaign. Mostly, space was given to the SNSD (22 per cent), other parties received less than 10 per cent of space (the SDS 9 per cent, and the SDA 7per cent). The tone towards all these parties was mainly neutral. The RS government and the SNSD received the biggest amount of negative coverage. Frontal.rs published mainly news from news agencies (SRNA), as well as press releases of political parties which were published in detail. The dominant topic was the establishment of the RS government. Klix.ba reported extensively and in details on election results, coalition agreements etc. a number of press releases and reports by news agencies were published, as in the pre-election time. Klix also published names of all members of Cantonal Assemblies and Parliamentary Assembly of BiH. The SDA (16 per cent), the SNSD (10 per cent), the SDP (9 per cent) and the HDZBIH (9 per cent) were the most presented parties. The tone of the coverage was mainly neutral with the SNSD receiving the biggest amount of negative coverage. Klix reported also on some interesting topics related to the elections that other media did not mention, such as who were candidates who received less than 5 votes (on 2 November) or what was education background of election officials (on 11 November). On 15 November, Klix published an audio story on Željka Cvijanović, secretly recorded when talking about “buying” certain politicians. Frontal.rs published this story as well on the same date. Klix journalists were invited to Banja Luka police to give statement on this afterwards. Klix and some other media reported about that. CONCLUSION The post-election monitoring continues to confirm that the problems identified during the preelection period in the media were not results of short-term anomalies but reflect genuine trends in the BiH media. During the pre-election period as well as after the elections, media more or less showed their open preferences towards certain politicians and /or parties in the news programs and newspapers. A number of important reforms and changes will be necessary in order for the media to provide their audience with a more diverse coverage of political views and opinions.. The final report, will include concrete recommendations for the above mentioned reforms and changes. The postelection monitoring by the Media Plan Institute will last until the end of December and there will be one more monitoring report published in January. ! ! BiH – Monitoring media Media Monitoring From 1 September 2014, the Media Plan, with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the UK Government, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and the European Union, has monitored nine television channels, three radio stations, six newspapers and four online media outlet. The monitoring of the media coverage of the pre-election period finished on 10 October. On 13 October, the Media Plan Institute resumed its monitoring of the media to focus on the post-election period, including the forming of the new state administration. The monitoring included quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis. The following monitoring data cover the period 1-30 November. The monitoring included quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis. Quantitative analysis includes a number of numeric measures and indicators that can be counted and analysed, including assessing and producing findings regarding the time or space allocated to each contestant or other relevant political subjects (in the prime time news programmes) and also evaluating the tone of the coverage in which these subjects were portrayed – positive, neutral or negative. Qualitative analysis evaluates the performance of selected media outlets against ethical and professional standards, such as balance, accuracy, timely, choice of issues, omission of information, advantage of incumbency, positioning of items, inflammatory language etc. The enclosed charts show the coverage of political parties and other relevant subjects in the prime time news programs. Explanation of the charts Political parties and other relevant subjects ! ! The pie charts show the total percentage of airtime 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/space devoted to relevant political subjects by each media outlet in the defined period. Monitored media outlets: Television: ! BHT1, FTV, RTRS, NTV Hayat, TV BN, TV1, and ATV Monitoring media - BiH 2014 BHTV1 - news program (Dnevnik 2 at 19.00) 1/11/14 - 31/11/14 (Filtered to type BiH'News') PresCr USD SDPBiH DF 5% NSRzB 1% BiH PresSr 2% 3% 1% 6% BiH PresBo 1% RSPres 5% DNS 3% BiHCoM 7% SP 3% FBiHGov 5% RSGov 3% SNSD 13% HDZBiH 11% SNSD - DNS - SP 1% NDP 3% KD 2% SDS 5% PDPRS 2% SDA 13% SzP 4% Total Neg. Total Neutr. Total Pos. 0:17:17 0:14:24 0:11:31 0:08:38 0:05:46 0:02:53 © MEMO 98, Martinengova 8, 811 02 Bratislava, tel./fax. (02) 6280 1199, www.memo98.sk PUPRS USD SRSRS SDPBiH NS NSRzB HDZ1990 DF DNS SP SNSD NDP SNSD - DNS SP SDS SzP PDPRS SDA KD RSGov HDZBiH FBiHGov BiHCoM RSPres BiH PresBo BiH PresSr BiH PresCr 0:00:00 Monitoring media - BiH 2014 TV FTV - news programs (Dnevnik at 19.30) A-SDA 1% LSBiH 1% 1/11/14 - 31/11/14 (Filtered toBiHtype 'News') SRSRS PresCr 1% BiH PresSr 1% 1% BiH PresBo 1% USD 1% RSPres 2% SDPBiH 3% BiHCoM 4% FBiHGov 5% HDZ1990 1% RSGov 1% DF 11% DNS 2% HDZBiH 12% KD 1% SP 3% SDA 14% SNSD 10% NDP 5% SDS 6% SbiH 1% SBB 3% SzP 3% PDPRS 5% Total Neg. Total Neutr. Total Pos. 0:28:48 0:25:55 0:23:02 0:20:10 0:17:17 0:14:24 0:11:31 0:08:38 0:05:46 0:02:53 © MEMO 98, Martinengova 8, 811 02 Bratislava, tel./fax. (02) 6280 1199, www.memo98.sk INDEP SRSRS USD LSBiH A-SDA NS SDPBiH DF HDZ1990 BPSSH DNZ BOSS SP DNS SNSD SNSD - DNS - SDS NDP SzP PDPRS SDBiH SBB HSP SbiH KD SDA HSPAS HNS HDZBiH RSGov FBiHGov RSPres BiHCoM BiH PresSr BiH PresBo BiH PresCr 0:00:00 Monitoring media - BiH 2014 TV RTRS - news programs (Dnevnik at 19.30) 1/11/14 - 31/11/14 (Filtered to type 'News') SRSRS 1% SNS 1% DF 4% PUPRS 1% BiH PresCr 1% BiH PresSr 1% BiH PresBo 1% DNS 5% RSPres 14% SP 3% BiHCoM 3% SNSD 18% RSGov 8% HDZBiH 8% SNSD - DNS - SP 1% KD 2% NDP 4% SDS 7% SDA 9% SzP 3% PDPRS 4% Total Neg. Total Neutr. Total Pos. 1:04:48 0:57:36 0:50:24 0:43:12 0:36:00 0:28:48 0:21:36 0:14:24 0:07:12 © MEMO 98, Martinengova 8, 811 02 Bratislava, tel./fax. (02) 6280 1199, www.memo98.sk PUPRS INDEP SRSRS PEiSP NS SNS DF BOSS BPSSH SP DNS SNSD NDP SNSD - DNS SP SDS SzP PDPRS SBB SDA KD HNS HDZBiH RSGov BiHCoM FBiHGov RSPres BiH PresBo BiH PresSr BiH PresCr 0:00:00 Monitoring media - BiH 2014 NTV Hayat - news programs (Vijesti at 19.00) 1/11/14 - 31/11/14 (Filtered BiH to type INDEP BiH PresSr PresCr'News') 1% 3% 1% USD 5% BiH PresBo 3% SDPBiH 3% RSPres 3% DF 10% BiHCoM 5% FBiHGov 7% BPSSH 1% DNS 2% RSGov 1% SP 2% HDZBiH 9% SNSD 10% NDP 2% SDA 16% SDS 4% PDPRS 7% SbiH 1% SBB 2% SzP 1% Total Neg. Total Neutr. Total Pos. 0:17:17 0:14:24 0:11:31 0:08:38 0:05:46 0:02:53 SRSRS USD INDEP A-SDA NS © MEMO 98, Martinengova 8, 811 02 Bratislava, tel./fax. (02) 6280 1199, www.memo98.sk SDPBiH NSRzB DF HDZ1990 SDU BPSSH SP DNS SNSD SNSD - DNS - SDS NDP SzP PDPRS SDU SBB SbiH KD SDA RSGov HDZBiH FBiHGov RSPres BiHCoM BiH PresSr BiH PresBo BiH PresCr 0:00:00 Monitoring media - BiH 2014 TV BN - news programs (Dnevnik 2 at 19.30) 1/11/14 - 31/11/14 (Filtered toSRSRS type 'News') INDEP DF 1% DNS 4% 2% 1% PUPRS 1% BiH PresSr 3% RSPres 10% SP 3% BiHCoM 1% SNSD 14% RSGov 10% HDZBiH 4% SNSD - DNS - SP 1% KD 0% NDP 10% SDA 4% SzP 2% PDPRS 9% SDS 19% Total Neg. Total Neutr. Total Pos. 1:04:48 0:57:36 0:50:24 0:43:12 0:36:00 0:28:48 0:21:36 0:14:24 0:07:12 © MEMO 98, Martinengova 8, 811 02 Bratislava, tel./fax. (02) 6280 1199, www.memo98.sk PUPRS SRSRS INDEP DF DNS SP SNSD NDP SNSD - DNS SP SDS PDPRS SzP HSP SBB SbiH SDA KD HDZBiH RSGov BiHCoM RSPres BiH PresBo BiH PresSr BiH PresCr 0:00:00 Monitoring media - BiH 2014 TV1 - news programs (Dnevnik at 19.00) 1/11/14 - 31/11/14 (Filtered to type 'News') USD 2% SDPBiH 4% NS 1% INDEP 1% SRSRS 1% BiH PresCr 2% BiH PresSr 6% BiH PresBo 3% DF 7% RSPres 5% BPSSH 1% BiHCoM 3% DNS 1% FBiHGov 7% SP 2% RSGov 1% SNSD 14% HDZBiH 10% NDP 3% KD 1% SDS 8% PDPRS 2% SDA 13% SBB 1% SzP 2% Total Neg. Total Neutr. Total Pos. 0:36:00 0:28:48 0:21:36 0:14:24 0:07:12 © MEMO 98, Martinengova 8, 811 02 Bratislava, tel./fax. (02) 6280 1199, www.memo98.sk SRSRS PUPRS USD INDEP A-SDA NS SDPBiH NSRzB DF HDZ1990 BPSSH SP DNS SNSD SNSD - DNS - SDS NDP SzP PDPRS SBB SbiH KD SDA RSGov HDZBiH BiHCoM FBiHGov VicepresBo RSPres RSVicepresCr BiH PresSr BiH PresBo BiH PresCr 0:00:00 Monitoring media - BiH 2014 ATV news programs (Vijesti at 19.00) 1/11/14 - 31/11/14 (Filtered to typeBiH 'News') PresCr PUPRS 1% SRSRS 1% DF 3% 1% BiH PresSr 4% BiH PresBo 2% RSPres 6% DNS 6% BiHCoM 2% SP 4% RSGov 6% HDZBiH 5% SNSD 23% KD 4% SDA 7% NDP 4% PDPRS 5% SDS 14% SzP 2% Total Neg. Total Neutr. Total Pos. 0:57:36 0:50:24 0:43:12 0:36:00 0:28:48 0:21:36 0:14:24 0:07:12 © MEMO 98, Martinengova 8, 811 02 Bratislava, tel./fax. (02) 6280 1199, www.memo98.sk SRSRS PUPRS INDEP DF BPSSH DNS BOSS SP NDP SNSD SDS SzP PDPRS SBB HSP SbiH KD SDA HDZBiH RSGov FBiHGov BiHCoM RSVicepresCr RSPres BiH PresSr BiH PresBo BiH PresCr 0:00:00 Monitored subjects Croatian Member of the BiH Presidency Serbian Member of the BiH Presidency Bosnian Member of the BiH Presidency President of FBiH Bosniak Vice-president of FBiH Serbian Member of Federal Presidency President of Republika Srpska Vice-president of Republika Srpska Croat Vice-president of Republika Srpska Bosniak BiH Council of Ministers FBiH Government RS Government BiH PresCr BiH PresSr BiH PresBo FedPres Fed VicepresBo FedVicepresSr RSPres RSVicepresCr VicepresBo BiH CoM FBiH Gov RS Gov HNS • • • • • HNS Hrvatska(demokratska(zajednica2(( ( ( Hrvatska(seljačka(stranka2( ( ( ( Hrvatska(kršćansko2demokratska(unija(BiH(–((( Hrvatska(stranka(prava(Ante(Starčevića2( ( Hrvatska(stranka(prava(Herceg2Bosne(2( ( ( ( ( ( ( Borci za novu politiku • • BNP Savez(za(novu(politiku(2(( ( ( ( Stranka(socijalne(sigurnosti(srpskih(boraca(2(( ( ( ( Koalicija Domovina • • • • • • • • SNP( SSSSB( KD Stranka(demokratske(akcije(2(( ( ( ( Stranka(za(Bosnu(i(Hercegovinu(2(( ( ( Savez(za(bolju(budućnost2Fahrudin(Radončić((( Hrvatska(stranka(prava( ( ( ( Prva(stranka(2(( ( ( ( ( ( Stranka(dijaspore(BiH(2(( ( ( ( Demokratska(fronta(BiH( ( ( ( Stranka(demokratske(unije( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( Savez za promjene • • HDZ(BiH( HSS( HKDU(BiH( HSP(AS( HSPHB( SDA( SbiH( SBB( HSP( PS( SDBiH( DF(BiH( SDU( SzP Partija(demokratskog(progresa(Republike(Srpske(2(( Srpska(demokratska(stranka(2((( ( ( ( ( PDP(RS( SDS( Savet SNSD-DNS-SP • • • Savez(nezavisnih(socijaldemokrata(–(( Milorad(Dodik( ( Socijalistička(partija(–((( ( ( ( ( Demokratski(narodni(savez(–(( ( ( ( ( Snaga BiH • Hrvatska(stranka(prava(BiH( SNSD(( SoP( DNS( SNBiH ( ( ( ( HSP(BiH( • Demokratska(stranka(invalida(BiH(–(( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( Zajedno za promjene • • • Stranka(pravde(i(povjerenja(( ( Demokratska(narodna(zajednica( Socijal2demokratska(unija( ( DSI(BiH( ZZP ( ( ( Bosanska stranka Bosansko podrinjska narodna stranka Bosanskohercegovačka patriotska stranka Sefer Halilović – Demokratska Fronta - Željko Komšić – Demokratska narodna zajednica BiH – Demokratska stranka srpske Demokratski pokret Srpske Hrvatska demokratska unija BiH – Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine 1990 – Liberalnodemokratska stranka BiH Narodna stranka radom za boljitak – Za boljitak Naša stranka Komunistička partija Bosne i Hercegovine – Socijaldemokratska partija Bosne i Hercegovine – Socijaldemokratska unija liberalnodemokratska stranka Stranka demokratske aktivnosti za evropsku BiH Stranka penzionera umirovljenika Bosne i Hercegovine – Stranka za narod Bosne i Hercegovine Unija socijaldemokrata-unija za sve nas Laburistička stranka BiH - Laburisti Bih Novi pokret BiH Stranka pravedne politike Regionalni demokratski savez Tuzla Hrvatski savez HKDU – HRAST Srpska napredna stranka Savez za Promjene Partija ekonomske i socijalne pravde Složna narodna stranka Narodni demokratski pokret Seljačka stranka Za pravdu i red - lista Nebojše Vukanovića Snaga naroda Srpska radikalna stranka RS Srpska radikalna stranka Vojislav Šešelj Savez mladih za promjene Nezavisni demokratski savez Nezavisna demokratska stranka Nezavisna lista Partia ujedinjenih penzionera Republike Srpske Vizionarski demokratski savez Savez za Bolje Goražde Independent candidates Nova hrvatska iniciativa Stranka nova srpska SPP( DNZ( SDU( BOSS BPNS BPS SH DF DNZ BiH DSS Depos HDU BIH HDZ1990 LDS BiH NSRzB NS KP BiH SDP BiH SDU-LDS S A-SDA SP/U BIH SzNBiH USD LSBiH NPBiH StrPP RDS HKDU - HRAST SNS SP PEiSP SLNS NDP SELS ZPiR SnN SRS RS SRS VJ SMZP NDS NeDS NL PUPRS VDS SzBG INDEP NHI SRNS ! ! BiH – Monitoring media Media Monitoring From 1 September 2014, the Media Plan, with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the UK Government, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and the European Union, has monitored nine television channels, three radio stations, six newspapers and four online media outlet. The monitoring of the media coverage of the pre-election period finished on 10 October. On 13 October, the Media Plan Institute resumed its monitoring of the media to focus on the postelection period, including the forming of the new state administration. The monitoring included quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis. The following monitoring data cover the period 1-30 November. Quantitative analysis includes a number of numeric measures and indicators that can be counted and analysed, including assessing and producing findings regarding the time or space allocated to each contestant or other relevant political subjects (in the prime time news programmes) and also evaluating the tone of the coverage in which these subjects were portrayed – positive, neutral or negative. Qualitative analysis evaluates the performance of selected media outlets against ethical and professional standards, such as balance, accuracy, timely, choice of issues, omission of information, advantage of incumbency, positioning of items, inflammatory language etc. The enclosed charts show the coverage of political parties and other relevant subjects in the prime time news programs. Explanation of the charts Political parties and other relevant subjects ! ! The pie charts show the total percentage of airtime 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/space devoted to relevant political subjects by each media outlet in the defined period. Monitored media outlets: Newspapers: Glas Srpske, Nezavisne novine, Oslobodjenie, Večernji list, and Dnevni avaz Web portals: Frontal and Klix ! Monitoring media - BiH 2014 Glas Srpske 1/11/14 - 31/11/14 DF 1% BOSS 1% BiH PresSr 4% SRSRS 1% BiH PresBo 1% DNS 5% RSPres 9% SP 3% RSVicepresCr 1% BiHCoM 7% SNSD 26% RSGov 21% NDP 2% HDZBiH 4% SDS 4% SzP 1% PDPRS 3% SDA 5% SBB 1% Total Pos. Total Neutr. Total Neg. 6,000 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 © MEMO 98, Martinengova 8, 811 02 Bratislava, tel./fax. (02) 6280 1199, www.memo98.sk PUPRS SRSRS SDPBiH DF BOSS SDU DNS SP SNSD NDP SNSD - DNS - SP SDS PDPRS SzP SBB SDA KD HDZBiH RSGov BiHCoM RSVicepresCr RSPres FedPres BiH PresBo BiH PresSr BiH PresCr 0 Monitoring media - BiH 2014 Nezavisne novine 1/11/14 - 31/11/14 SDPBiH 4% BiH PresCr 1% USD 1% DF 7% BiH PresSr 2% BiH PresBo 2% RSPres 10% DNS 4% BiHCoM 4% FBiHGov 1% SP 5% RSGov 8% SNSD 14% HDZBiH 11% NDP 2% KD 0% SDS 5% PDPRS 4% SDA 11% SzP 1% Total Pos. Total Neutr. Total Neg. 4,000 3,500 3,000 2,500 2,000 1,500 1,000 500 © MEMO 98, Martinengova 8, 811 02 Bratislava, tel./fax. (02) 6280 1199, www.memo98.sk SRSVS USD SRSRS SDPBiH DF SP DNS SNSD SNSD - DNS - SP SDS NDP PDPRS SzP SBB HSP SDA KD HNS HDZBiH RSGov FBiHGov BiHCoM RSVicepresCr RSPres BiH PresBo BiH PresSr BiH PresCr 0 Monitoring media - BiH 2014 Oslobodjenie 1/11/14 - 31/11/14 BiH PresBo 1% SRSRS 1% SDPBiH 16% RSPres 1% BiHCoM 3% FBiHGov 10% NS 4% HDZ1990 1% RSGov 1% DF 2% HDZBiH 17% BOSS 1% DNS 1% KD 1% SP 2% SDA 9% SNSD 10% SDS 11% NDP 2% PDPRS 3% SBB 1% SzP 1% Total Pos. 2,500 Total Neutr. Total Neg. 2,000 1,500 1,000 500 © MEMO 98, Martinengova 8, 811 02 Bratislava, tel./fax. (02) 6280 1199, www.memo98.sk PEiSP SRSRS USD SDPBiH NS DF HDZ1990 DNS BOSS SP NDP SNSD SDS PDPRS SzP SBB SDA KD HDZBiH HNS RSGov FBiHGov BiHCoM RSPres RSVicepresCr BiH PresBo FedVicepresB o FedVicepresS r 0 Monitoring media - BiH 2014 Vecernij List 1/11/14 - 31/11/14 DF 4% INDEP 2% SDPBiH 4% HDZ1990 5% BiH PresCr 2% BiH PresBo 1% BiH PresSr 6% RSPres 2% BPSSH 1% RSVicepresCr 3% SPP 1% BiHCoM 6% SP 1% FBiHGov 11% SNSD 6% SDS 5% PDPRS 1% HNS 2% SDBiH 1% SBB 2% HDZBiH 22% SDA 9% Total Pos. Total Neutr. Total Neg. 10,000 9,000 8,000 7,000 6,000 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 © MEMO 98, Martinengova 8, 811 02 Bratislava, tel./fax. (02) 6280 1199, www.memo98.sk INDEP USD HKDU - NSRzB SDPBiH LDSBiH DF HDZ1990 SPP BPSSH HSPBiH SP DNS SNSD SDS NDP SzP PDPRS SBB SDBiH SDA SbiH HSPAS HNS HDZBiH RSGov BiHCoM FBiHGov RSPres RSVicepresCr FedVicepresB BiH PresSr BiH PresBo BiH PresCr 0 Monitoring media - BiH 2014 Dnevni Avaz 1/11/14 - 31/11/14 NS 1% USD 1% SDPBiH 10% BiH PresCr 1% BiH PresSr 2% BiH PresBo 2% NSRzB 1% RSPres 2% DF 8% BiHCoM 4% BPSSH 1% FBiHGov 9% DNS 1% RSGov 1% SP 1% HDZBiH 9% SNSD 7% NDP 1% SDS 9% SDA 20% PDPRS 1% SzP 1% SBB 7% Total Pos. Total Neutr. Total Neg. 16,000 14,000 12,000 10,000 8,000 6,000 4,000 2,000 © MEMO 98, Martinengova 8, 811 02 Bratislava, tel./fax. (02) 6280 1199, www.memo98.sk INDEP PUPRS USD LSBiH A-SDA NS SDPBiH NSRzB DF HDZ1990 BPSSH SDU BOSS SP DNS SNSD SDS NDP SzP PDPRS SBB SDU KD SDA RSGov HDZBiH FBiHGov RSPres BiHCoM FedPres BiH PresSr BiH PresBo BiH PresCr 0 Media monitoring - BiH 2014 Frontal 1/11/14 - 31/11/14 SDPBiH 1% BiH PresSr 1% SRSRS 3% INDEP 3% RSPres 11% DF 4% RSVicepresCr 1% DNS 6% BiHCoM 1% SP 4% RSGov 4% HDZBiH 8% KD 2% SNSD 22% SDA 7% NDP 5% SDS 9% SzP 3% PDPRS 3% Total Pos. 50,000 Total Neutr. Total Neg. 45,000 40,000 35,000 30,000 25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 5,000 © MEMO 98, Martinengova 8, 811 02 Bratislava, tel./fax. (02) 6280 1199, www.memo98.sk PUPRS SRSRS PEiSP INDEP SDPBiH NSRzB DF HDZ1990 DNZ BPSSH SP DNS SNSD SNSD - DNS SDS NDP SzP PDPRS SBB SbiH KD SDA HDZBiH HNS RSGov BiHCoM RSVicepresC RSPres BiH PresSr BiH PresBo BiH PresCr 0 Monitoring media - BiH 2014 Klix 1/11/14 - 31/11/14 USD 3% PUPRS 1% INDEP 1% BiH PresCr 1% BiH PresSr 2% SDPBiH 9% BiH PresBo 2% RSPres 5% BiHCoM 8% NS 1% DF 5% FBiHGov 4% BPSSH 1% RSGov 5% DNS 1% HDZBiH 9% SP 1% KD 1% SNSD 10% SDA 16% NDP 4% PDPRS 3% SDS 4% SBB 1% SzP 2% Total Pos. Total Neutr. Total Neg. 100,000 90,000 80,000 70,000 60,000 50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000 © MEMO 98, Martinengova 8, 811 02 Bratislava, tel./fax. (02) 6280 1199, www.memo98.sk SRSRS PUPRS PEiSP INDEP USD StrPP A-SDA NS SDPBiH NSRzB DF HDZ1990 BOSS BPSSH ZZP SDU SP DNS SNSD SNSD - DNS SDS NDP SzP PDPRS SBB SDU SbiH KD SDA HNS HDZBiH RSGov FBiHGov RSPres BiHCoM FedPres BiH PresSr BiH PresBo BiH PresCr 0 Monitored subjects Croatian Member of the BiH Presidency Serbian Member of the BiH Presidency Bosnian Member of the BiH Presidency President of FBiH Bosniak Vice-president of FBiH Serbian Member of Federal Presidency President of Republika Srpska Vice-president of Republika Srpska Croat Vice-president of Republika Srpska Bosniak BiH Council of Ministers FBiH Government RS Government BiH PresCr BiH PresSr BiH PresBo FedPres Fed VicepresBo FedVicepresSr RSPres RSVicepresCr VicepresBo BiH CoM FBiH Gov RS Gov HNS • • • • • HNS Hrvatska(demokratska(zajednica2(( ( ( Hrvatska(seljačka(stranka2( ( ( ( Hrvatska(kršćansko2demokratska(unija(BiH(–((( Hrvatska(stranka(prava(Ante(Starčevića2( ( Hrvatska(stranka(prava(Herceg2Bosne(2( ( ( ( ( ( ( Borci za novu politiku • • BNP Savez(za(novu(politiku(2(( ( ( ( Stranka(socijalne(sigurnosti(srpskih(boraca(2(( ( ( ( Koalicija Domovina • • • • • • • • SNP( SSSSB( KD Stranka(demokratske(akcije(2(( ( ( ( Stranka(za(Bosnu(i(Hercegovinu(2(( ( ( Savez(za(bolju(budućnost2Fahrudin(Radončić((( Hrvatska(stranka(prava( ( ( ( Prva(stranka(2(( ( ( ( ( ( Stranka(dijaspore(BiH(2(( ( ( ( Demokratska(fronta(BiH( ( ( ( Stranka(demokratske(unije( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( Savez za promjene • • HDZ(BiH( HSS( HKDU(BiH( HSP(AS( HSPHB( SDA( SbiH( SBB( HSP( PS( SDBiH( DF(BiH( SDU( SzP Partija(demokratskog(progresa(Republike(Srpske(2(( Srpska(demokratska(stranka(2((( ( ( ( ( PDP(RS( SDS( Savet SNSD-DNS-SP • • • Savez(nezavisnih(socijaldemokrata(–(( Milorad(Dodik( ( Socijalistička(partija(–((( ( ( ( ( Demokratski(narodni(savez(–(( ( ( ( ( Snaga BiH • Hrvatska(stranka(prava(BiH( SNSD(( SoP( DNS( SNBiH ( ( ( ( HSP(BiH( • Demokratska(stranka(invalida(BiH(–(( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( Zajedno za promjene • • • Stranka(pravde(i(povjerenja(( ( Demokratska(narodna(zajednica( Socijal2demokratska(unija( ( DSI(BiH( ZZP ( ( ( Bosanska stranka Bosansko podrinjska narodna stranka Bosanskohercegovačka patriotska stranka Sefer Halilović – Demokratska Fronta - Željko Komšić – Demokratska narodna zajednica BiH – Demokratska stranka srpske Demokratski pokret Srpske Hrvatska demokratska unija BiH – Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine 1990 – Liberalnodemokratska stranka BiH Narodna stranka radom za boljitak – Za boljitak Naša stranka Komunistička partija Bosne i Hercegovine – Socijaldemokratska partija Bosne i Hercegovine – Socijaldemokratska unija liberalnodemokratska stranka Stranka demokratske aktivnosti za evropsku BiH Stranka penzionera umirovljenika Bosne i Hercegovine – Stranka za narod Bosne i Hercegovine Unija socijaldemokrata-unija za sve nas Laburistička stranka BiH - Laburisti Bih Novi pokret BiH Stranka pravedne politike Regionalni demokratski savez Tuzla Hrvatski savez HKDU – HRAST Srpska napredna stranka Savez za Promjene Partija ekonomske i socijalne pravde Složna narodna stranka Narodni demokratski pokret Seljačka stranka Za pravdu i red - lista Nebojše Vukanovića Snaga naroda Srpska radikalna stranka RS Srpska radikalna stranka Vojislav Šešelj Savez mladih za promjene Nezavisni demokratski savez Nezavisna demokratska stranka Nezavisna lista Partia ujedinjenih penzionera Republike Srpske Vizionarski demokratski savez Savez za Bolje Goražde Independent candidates Nova hrvatska iniciativa Stranka nova srpska SPP( DNZ( SDU( BOSS BPNS BPS SH DF DNZ BiH DSS Depos HDU BIH HDZ1990 LDS BiH NSRzB NS KP BiH SDP BiH SDU-LDS S A-SDA SP/U BIH SzNBiH USD LSBiH NPBiH StrPP RDS HKDU - HRAST SNS SP PEiSP SLNS NDP SELS ZPiR SnN SRS RS SRS VJ SMZP NDS NeDS NL PUPRS VDS SzBG INDEP NHI SRNS