According to official information released by Babruisk town election commission, 10 pro-democratic candidates will run in the election, including a BSDP ‘Hramada’ member Andrei Staselovich, an Independent Trade Union activist Mikhail Kavalkou and an independent journalist Mikhail Larchanka.
On 26 March Buda-Kashaliova district court fined journalist and activist Valery Shchukin BYR 1,050,000 for violating Paragraph 2 of Article 22.9 of the Civil Code (distribution of periodicals without output data), following his arrest on 25 March while transporting 24,000 copies of the Nash dom independent newspaper in his car, the Belarusian Association of Journalists reports.
According to the Zhytstsio Palessia Mazyr local newspaper, the town’s district executive committee approved a list of locations authorized for installing election agitation stands. However, the canvassing campaign having been announced, many of the specified locations still lack agitation stands, including a number of key public sites: major industrial enterprises etc.
According to official data provided by the Minskaya prauda state-owned newspaper, most of the Minsk region’s district and village constituencies are likely to see appointment of deputies, rather than genuine elections, with 796 seats in the district councils to be claimed by 804 candidates, and 3,400 seats in the village councils to be run for by 3,296 candidates.
The political soldier Franak Vyachorka, who serves in Mozyr, was registered as a candidate for deputy of Mozyr district council on March 24.
As "Human rights activists for free elections" inform, now he is waiting for a verdict of the Central military and medical comission concerning his possible early discharge from military service on medical grounds.
Uladzimir Tseliapun, member of the Belarusian Popular Front party, lodged a complaint with the Homel Regional Election Commission, after he was refused registration as a candidate for the Homel Regional Council and the Mazyr District Council due to the activist’s failure to declare a land parcel in his income statement.
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