Members of Maladechna commissions know secrets of many elections
Two constituency election commissions work in the
Maladechna district during the present election campaign: Maladechna city
constituency election commission #72 and Maladechna village constituency
election commission.
The work of commission #72 is very important – most probably, the pro-regime
candidate will have a rival there, that's why only reliable people, who have
worked at many elections, were included in it (10 out of 13 commission members
have the experience of election work).
At first glance it seems that the commission was formed on democratic
principles – apart from ideologists and officers of the executive committee,
there is a laboratory assistant of an educational establishment, a pensioner
and a guard. However, in fact the laboratory assistant Aksana Apiatsionak is
the secretary of a primary organization of the Belarusian National Youth Union,
the pensioner Liutsyia Arlovich – a former head of the local council, who
headed election commissions during several elections and faced pretensions
concerning election frauds. The guard Liudmila Miastouskaya is a former main
specialist on security of state secrets at the “Satellite” plant, who also
keeps the secrets of many elections.
There is yet more elite at Maladechna village election commission #73: 12 out
of 13 members of the commissions are either former or present officers of
executive committees, almost all of whom were nominated to the commission “by
signatures of electors”.
Members of the both commissions also represent the standard range of
organizations: Belarusian National Youth Union, “Belaya Rus”, “Red Cross”,
Belarusian Association of Veterans and trade-unions.
The only representative of the Belarusian Popular Front who expressed the wish
to work in the election commission, wasn't given this honor.
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