Truant member of pro-governmental party included in Rechytsa Constituency Election Commission again
During the previous parliamentary elections a
member of the National Party of Labor and Justice Yury Zhurau didn't come to
any sittings of the constituency election commission despite being its member.
However, he has been included in the commission during the present election
campaign, too.
10 out of 13 members of the Rechytsa constituency election commission #44 have
already worked at election commissions during parliamentary and presidential
elections. The composition of the election commissions remains almost the same
during different elections. Local officials and ideologists are always included
in them. In particular, the deputy head on ideology of a pedagogical college
Iryna Abramovich was included as a nominee of the “state NGO” “Belaya Rus”.
Another civil organization, “Belarusian Peace Foundation”, nominated the deputy
head of the Rechytsa District Executive Committee Vital Atamanchuk.
Yury Zhurau, a representative of the National Party of Labor and Justice, was
included in the constituency election commission as well. During the
parliamentary election of 2008 he didn't come to any sittings of the
commission. He was also absent at the first sitting of the commission on 10
July 2012.
There are some new members in the commission this time: the head of the
district veteran organization Viachaslau Papou and a member of the Rechytsa
District Council, the head of a “Belprambudbank” Larysa Babrounik. Teh deputy
chief medic on ideology of the district hospital Zinaida Puziankova was
included in the commission as a nominee of a trade union, as well as the chief
engineer of the housing economy Viktar Seviarynets (who worked at the
commission during the parliamentary and the presidential elections, as well as
the head of the Rechytsa branch of “Belarusian Oil” enterprise Viktar
Semchanka, who was nominated to the commission “by citizens”). There is also
the head of the organizational and personnel department of the executive
committee Ryhor Yakushau (also nominated “by citizens”), and another “citizen's
nominee”, Eduard Yarashonak, who has already taken part in the election
commission during the presidential election.
By the way, on 9 July, the day the election commissions were formed, the
informational agency “BelTA” wrote that
there are just 99 members of the Belarusian National Youth Union, “Belaya Rus”,
the veteran's association, “Red Cross” and trade unions, whereas all other
members of the commissions are members of labor collectives and ordinary
citizens.
We continue looking for these “ordinary citizens” among members of commissions,
but still haven't found any – just found that state bosses and officials
disguise as members of trade unions, “Red Cross” and “Belaya Rus”.