The political forces running for the Yerevan City Council in the May 31 elections are mainly dissatisfied with the quality and way of coverage of their campaigns in print media. While they consider that television stations are mostly neutral in their reports involving candidates and their campaigns, they see a division in print and online media into two parts – pro-governing and pro-opposition that are openly engaged in smear campaigns against the opposite camp.

Seven TV companies were monitored to see how balanced they are in their coverage of the election campaign. Among them one is public (Armenian Public Television H1) and six are private (H2, ALM, ArmNews, Yerkir Media, Kentron and Shant).