News on the topic: elections-2012
06.09.2012 Salihorsk police interfere with electoral meeting of Viktar Malochka
An electoral meeting with Viktar Malochka, a candidate for the Parliament running at election constituency #68, took place in the Builder's Club in the evening of 5 September. The leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Liabedzka also attended the event as an electioneering agent for Malochka.
06.09.2012 Vitsebsk: TV debates with participation of Aliaksei Yanukevich not broadcast on air
A 30-minute program dedicated the memory of those who perished during World War II was broadcast instead of the TV debates with participation of the head of the Belarusian Popular Front Party Aliaksei Yanukevich.
06.09.2012 Supreme Court upholds non-registration of Mikhail Vasiliieu
On 5 September the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus considered the appeal of the head of the Barysau city organization of the United Civil Party Mikhail Vasiliieu against his non-registration as a candidate for the Parliament by the election commission of Barysau village constituency #63.
06.09.2012 Zelva: conditions for campaigning remain unequal
The conditions for the agitation campaign remain unequal for pro-regime and all other candidates for the Parliament.
05.09.2012 Shklou: pro-governmental candidate uses office powers for agitation
On 5 September the parliamentary candidates running at Shklou election constituency #90 Ryhor Kastusiou (from the Belarusian Popular Front Party) and Zinaida Mileshchanka (“Fair World” Party) appealed unlawful actions of their rival, deputy head of the State Control Committee of Belarus Aliaksandr Aheyeu, to the constituency election commission,
05.09.2012 Asipovichy: constituency election commission threatens to deprive opposition candidate of registration
Constituency election commission #89 in Asipovichy blankly demanded that Albert Yaumenau, a candidate from the Belarusian Popular Front Party, presented a note from his job confirming that he was on a vacation leave in connection with the election. The commission threatens to deprive him of the registration as a candidate in the case he doesn't fulfill this requirement.
05.09.2012 Baranavichy: parliamentary candidate Charnavus is required to refrain from criticizing local authorities
Mikalai Charnavus, a candidate for the Parliament running at Baranavichy-Western election constituency #5, presented his electoral program for publication at the state-owned newspaer “Nasha Krai”.
05.09.2012 Brest procuracy warns Andrei Sharenda
The Brest procuracy issued the civil activist Andrei Sharenda with a warning taking into account some “circumstances witnessing a violation of the Law “On mass events” (during his participation in the peaceful post-election protests on 19 December 2010 in Minsk).
05.09.2012 Supreme Court turns down two more appeals against non-registration of opposition candidates
Vitsebsk activist of the civil campaign “Tell The Truth” Siarhei Parsiukevich was going to run at Vitsebsk-Kastrychnitskaya constituency #20. However, the constituency election commission didn't register his candidacy, stating that a part of the signatures in his support were invalid. The Central Election Commission and the Supreme Court upheld this decision.
05.09.2012 Viktar Karniayenka got stripsearched at the border
One of the coordinators of the campaign "For Fair Elections" was released only at 2 a.m.
05.09.2012 Leanid Padiaretski released for TV debates
Candidate from the Belarusian Social Democratic Party "Hramada" Leanid Padbiaretski was released from the police to record the TV debates, reports RFE/RL.
04.09.2012 Bykhau: electoral meetings with pro-governmental candidates held during working hours
According to information which was received by a candidate of the Belarusian Popular Front Siarhei Antonau, his rival, a candidate for the Parliament at Bykhau election constituency #81, head of the Slauharad Ditrict Council and the Slauharad district organization of the “Belaya Rus” Tatsiana Kananchuk has held an electoral meeting with the labor collective of the Bykhau bread-baking plant during the working hours.
04.09.2012 Supreme Court turns down appeal against non-registration of candidate
On 4 September the Supreme Court considered an appeal of Aksana Samuilava, an activist of the “Tell the Truth” civil campaign from Mahiliou, against the decisions of a constituency election commission and the Central Election Commission not to register her as a candidate for the Parliament.
04.09.2012 Candiadte Sodzel allows insulting remarks about his rivals
The electoral program of Zhan Sodzel, a candidate of the Communist Party of Belarus running at Kalinouskaya election constituency #108, has been published in “Minski Kur’yer” newspaper.
04.09.2012 Brest: nobody wants to take responsibility for censorship
Dyiana Kastsiukovich, a candidate for the Parliament at Brest-Eastern election constituency #3, nominated by the United Civil Party, still cannot receive a precise answer to her appeals to different state agencies in connection with the limitations she had faced during the recording of her TV speech.
