However, it has been pointed out that incumbents’ and ruling parties’ activities usually enjoy extensive, uncritical and, at times, promotional coverage in public and government-affiliated private media. Influential private media with national coverage focused their news coverage on State officials, many of them standing as candidates, often promoting governmental projects in the campaign period. Moreover, the election campaign period is very short and starts with the registration of candidates and candidate lists, as the candidates’ lists are registered three weeks before the elections. The brevity of the campaign period is due to a relatively short period between calling the elections and election day (e.g., by law, at least 30 days before presidential and at least 45 days before parliamentary elections, which was the case for both presidential and parliamentary elections in April 2022). This may give unfair advantages to the political parties in the government, as their presence as ministers or other incumbents in the media may lead to unbalanced disguised campaigning.