News on the topic: elections
03.10.2008 Central election commission ignores manipulations of election results
The spokesman of the Central Election Commission Mikalai Lazavik said complaints of observers and former MP candidates wouldn’t influence the results of the Parliamentary elections.
05.06.2008 Activist of the BPF Party is fired from ‘Beltransgas’
Alexander Mekh, the chairman of Kobryn organization of the Belarusian Popular Front Party, was warned that he would be fired from work. The activist associates it with his intention to run at the upcoming parliamentary election.
12.05.2008 Young Front supports boycott of the upcoming election
The underground youth organization Young Front is against participation in the so-called parliamentary election appointed on autumn by the Belarusian authorities.
08.05.2008 Coordinator of Charter’97 Zmitser Bandarenka proposes to boycott the elections
‘The regime has given up on dialogue and democratization by unleashing a real terror against political opposition and the civil society. That is why the democratic forces are to start realization of a different strategy,’ believes the coordinator of the Charter’97 Zmitser Bandarenka.
17.04.2008 Pro-dem forces to readdress parliament for election code changes
According to the UCPB leader Anatol Liabedzka, the National Committee of the United Democratic Forces will address the Belarusian parliament with a request to introduce changes to the electoral code of Belarus. Most of them deal with the system of monitoring poll procedures, as well as the rights and opportunities of inner and external observers.
30.01.2008 Lidia Yarmoshyna: Institute of international election observation is a purely political tool
Institute of international election observation is a purely political tool, Lidia Yarmoshyna, chairperson of the Central Election Commission, stated in the interview to Belaruskaya Dumka magazine.
10.01.2008 No Election Dialogue Ahead
The leaders of the United Democratic Forces have received an answer from the Presidential administration concerning their proposal to hold a dialogue on the election legislation and the practice of its usage. In their answer the authorities refused from such dialogue.
25.09.2007 Navapolatsak Activists Tried for Violation of Procedure of Recalling MPs
Today Navapolatsak city court began to hear the administrative case about violation of the Administrative Code. Three civic activists – Valer Shauchenka, Ihar Sukharukau, and Anton Yasinovich – are to be tried.
15.08.2007 Chair of Shklou BPF Office Stays behind Bars
The chair of Shklou office of Belarusian People’s Front Party Aliaksandr Fiodarau will stay in jail, at least till the end of the investigation. The prosecutor of Shklou district Ihar Sitnikou denied the lawyer’s petition for change of the restraint to his client.
25.06.2007 BSDP Hramada to Run in Parliamentary Elections 2008
The election campaign will be combined with the struggle for release of the political prisoners, as well as for the electoral rights of the citizens, abolition of the contract system, and revision of the legislation on benefits and the freedom of conscience.
