Head of district executive committee runs for the Parliament, the head of the organizational department accepts signature sheets
A representative of the Belarusian Helsinki
Committee Vasil Berasneu applied to the Central Election Commission and the
Orsha procuracy against the events taking place at Dniaprouskaya election
constituency #27 in Orsha.
The head of the Orsha District Executive Committee Uladzimir Dzedushkin is a
prospective candidate at this constituency. He has already got his team
registered with the constituency election commission. As it was found, the head
of the team passed sheets with signatures in support of the nomination of
Dzedushkin's candidacy for the election, to the head of the organizational and
personnel department of the Orhsa DEC, Tatsiana Valodkina, who then passes them
to the constituency election commission.
The human rights defender considers it as a gross violation of Part 8 of
Article 61 of the Electoral Code of the Republic of Belarus
which prohibits the participation of executive authorities in canvassing.
“Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections”
