Brest: Hanna Kanius gets warned by election commission
The head of the Brest organization of the
Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) Hanna Kanius who awaits
registration as a candidate for the Parliament at Brest-Western election
constituency #1, received a warning from the constituency election commission.
The reason for the warning is an application of her rival, the head of the
Brest central department store Viktar Valiushytski who stated that she had
published false information about him in mass media.
Earlier Hanna Kanius had applied to the election commission with the request to
check some facts which witnessed violations of the electoral legislation by
Valiushytski. Predictably enough, the commission didn't found any violations in
actions of the pro-governmental candidate.
The commission's reaction to his appeal against Hanna Kanius was quite
different: having listened to his explanations and her arguments, the
commission members voted for issuing her with a warning (two members of the
commission abstained from voting). According to the commission, the violation
is that mass media published information about her application to the election
commission. “However, I asked to check the circumstances, described in my
application, and didn't assert that Valiushytski has violated anything. Shall a
warning be issue for this?”, asks the activist.
Hanna Kanius has filed an appeal against the warning to the Central Election
Commission. Now she is waiting for an answer.
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