Babruisk: observers aren’t admitted to sittings on formation of precinct election commissions
The
Belarusian Helsinki Committee received an answer from the Leninski District
Executive Committee of Babruisk to its request to admit observers to the
sitting at which the precinct election commissions were formed.
The executive officer of the committee Halina Kharkaliova again refers to
Article 34 of the Electoral Code (as she used to do during the formation of the
territorial election commissions) that says nothing about the right of
observers to attend such sittings. Thus, according to her observers have no
legal right to be present at such sitting.
The Babruisk human rights defender Yury Chapuryshkin says that similar
addresses were submitted by BHC members to the Pershamaiski District Executive
Committee of Babruisk and the Babruisk District Executive Committee, but no answers
have been received so far, and that the human rights defenders will file
complaints to the Babruisk City Executive Committee in connection with the
refusal to admit them to the sitting.
Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections
