19.09.2012 Zhodzina: huge slit in ballot box
Tatsiana Novikava, chair of Zhodzina election commission No. 19, refused to seal an opening under the lid of a ballot box located in constituency No. 64, local observer Aliaksei Lapitski reports.
19.09.2012 Lida police seize election boycott fliers
Lida police confiscated yesterday some 15,000 leaflets produced by the United Civil Party. The leaflets cover the issues related to the current election campaign, calling voters to boycott the pseudo elections.
19.09.2012 Early vote in Horki sets records
The election officials of polling station No. 3 in the town of Horki, Mahiliou region, can now recognize the elections valid, after some 250 voters cast their ballots within half an hour on the first day of the early vote campaign.
19.09.2012 Foreigners detained in Mahiliou, await deportation
A number of foreign nationals, representatives of youth political organizations from Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA, were detained yesterday at a meeting with NGO activists in Mahiliou.
18.09.2012 Slutsk activist appeals fine
Slutsk civil activist Vital Amialkovich is appealing a fine imposed by the administrative commission of the district’s executive committee back on 6 September.
18.09.2012 Ideologues in charge of early vote in Salihorsk
The ideology department of Salihorsk district executive committee launched last week a campaign of forced early voting. The coercion is said to be exercised through the managers of local state-owned and private enterprises, say reports by employees.
18.09.2012 The dead invited to vote in Vitsebsk
Vitsebsk resident Volha Kavalenka has submitted a complaint to the constituency election commission, after she received an invitation to vote bearing the name of her husband, who passed away in 2009.
18.09.2012 Minsk police detain youth activists and journalists
Four activists of the Zmena youth wing of the Tell the Truth campaign have been detained this afternoon in Minsk.
18.09.2012 Election officials turn down complaints by BPF candidate Ryhor Kastusiou
On 17 September, Ryhor Kastusiou, deputy chairman of the Belarusian Popular Front running for Parliament in Shklou constituency No. 90, received replies to his complaints submitted to the central Election Commissions and the constituency election commission.
18.09.2012 Early vote started in Vitsebsk: students coerced, observer detained
The students of a number of education institutions of Vitsebsk have been forced to cast their ballots during lessons, observers at constituency No. 20 report.
18.09.2012 UCP observers face obstacles in Mahiliou
At least 30 observers representing the United Civil Party have been denied access to the polling stations in Mahiliou constituency No. 87, as the early vote stage of the election campaign started today.
18.09.2012 Ales Antsipenka: “Value of information about the elections seriously diminished”
The expert thinks that the devaluation of information for people is connected with the significant changes in the mood of the society. The majority of the Belarusians do not have positive expectations for the future (firstly, because of the traumatic experience of currency devaluation and inflation).
18.09.2012 Rejected candidate to sue election officials
Aliaksandr Solap, activist of the Tell the Truth campaign who was denied registration as a candidate on moral grounds, is going to sue the officials of the Central Election Commission and Slutsk constituency commission, the Infa-Kurier regional newspaper reports.
17.09.2012 Central Election Commission: Observation of submission of election records not allowed
The law does not provide for observers’ involvement in the submission of election records to constituency election commissions, says the Central Election Commission in its reply to observer Ales Kaputski, registered in Maladechna constituency No. 73.
17.09.2012 Vitsebsk candidate criticizes unequal campaigning conditions
Vadzim Kuzmin, retired officer and member of the Fair World left party running for Parliament in Vitsebsk constituency No. 19, says he is appalled at the obstacles he has to overcome during the election campaign.
