The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

The United Democratic Party nominated more than 120 representatives to precinct election commissions, but only 10 of them were included in the commissions. Such results make the party to think about the senselessness of further participation in the local elections.

On 12 March, the member of the Belarusian Popular Front Siarhei Housha addressed Viktar Dzichkouski, Chairperson of the Baranavichy city executive committee, with a letter in which he wrote that he had been present at the historical sitting of the executive committee, at which the composition of 66 precinct election commissions consisting of 685 persons were adopted without the announcement and discussion of any the candidacies. The number of the applications on nomination of persons to the precinct commissions, the surnames of the nominees and those who were included in the commissions weren’t announced either.

The trial of Yauhen Yakavenka was cancelled by the Homel oblast court. At first Yauhen was punished with arrest for ostensibly ignoring an order of the military enlistment office.

The Rahachou district executive committee permitted outdoor agitation in villages only near the Culture Houses. However, there are only 29 Culture Houses in the 208 villages of the Rahachou district.

The civil society of the Vitsebsk oblast continues summing up the results of the formation of precinct elections. 9 persons were nominated to the commissions by the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, but only 2 of them will work at precinct commissions – one in the town of Hlybokaye and the other – in Pastavy. The remaining 7 BCD activists (4 in Vitsebsk and 3 in Orsha, including Pavel Seviarynets, co-Chairperson of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, and Tatsiana Seviarynets, his mother, BCD coordinator in the Vitsebsk oblast) weren't included in the commissions.