Polatsk: prosecutor's office finds nothing illegal in canvassing at work
Election observer Yury Belski filed two addresses
to the Polatsk City Prosecutor's Office during the canvassing campaign. In the
both cases described by him representatives of the electoral team of a pro-governmental
candidate Natallia Huivik who were state officials collected signatures in
support of her candidacy during the working hours.
However, the Polatsk City Prosecutor's Office answered that there was found no
evidence confirming the facts stated in his applications and the participation
of any officials in canvassing didn't contradict to the Electoral Code. At the
same time, it remains unclear, why these officials collected signatures at
work, which can be easily confirmed by analysis of the signature sheets passed
to the constituency election commission.
Bear in mind that the electoral team of the pro-governmental candidate Natallia
Huivik consists of more than 70 people, mainly middle-rank officials, and
passed to the election commission more than 3.5 thousand of signatures in her
support.
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