News on the topic: elections-2012
15.10.2012 Former candidate sues Brest City Executive Committee
Aliaksandr Melnik, a Brest citizen who ran for the Parliament at the latest election at the Brest-Western constituency #1, filed a lawsuit to court after receiving an answer from the city authorities.
11.10.2012 Orsha observers apply to Investigation Committee
Mikalai Dziamidau and Yauhen Anishchanka, coordinators of the “For Fair Elections – 2012” campaign who observed the voting at the polling stations of the election constituencies #26 and 27, discovered a number of violations of the Electoral Code of the Republic of Belarus.
11.10.2012 Former candidate tries to appeal election results at Supreme Court
Ihar Sluchak, a former candidate for the Parliament at the Homel-Savetskaya constituency #34, filed an appeal against the results of the election at this constituency to the Supreme Court. He asks the court to abolish the ruling of the Central Election Commission of 5 October according to which he was denied in holding a repeated counting of votes. He also asks the court to appoint the repeated vote counting at the constituency.
10.10.2012 Central Election Commission turns down appeal of Mahiliou observer
Alina Skrebunova asked the CEC to declare invalid the results of the parliamentary election at the polling station #48. According to her, the data of the virtual calculation of the electors who came to vote didn't correspond to the number in the commission's protocol.
10.10.2012 Prosecutor's office turned down appeal of Salihorsk observer
The Salihorsk District Prosecutor's Office considered an appeal of an observer of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, Uladzimir Shyla, concerning violations of the Electoral Code during the 23 September election.
09.10.2012 Brest: election commission turns down ex-candidate's complaint
The head of the Brest regional organization of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) Ihar Maslouski received an answer from the election commission of the Brest-Central election constituency #2.
09.10.2012 Ivatsevichy: observer gets fired after election
A locksmith from the communal public services enterprise in Ivatsevichy Stanislau Khaladovich, who was an observer of the elections, received a notification that his working contract won’t be prolonged on 7 November.
05.10.2012 “Hooligan” Housha says it’s impossible to win a politically motivated trial
The human rights defenders Siarhei Housha, fined one million rubles for the alleged use of obscene language towards members of an election commission while observing the Parliamentary election, filed an appeal to the Brest Region Court.
05.10.2012 Baranavichy: neither prosecutor, nor election commission give substantial answers to observer
On 4 October the election observer Viktar Meziak received an answer from the deputy head of the election commission of the Baranavichy-Easter constituency #6 Larysa Antonava in which it stated that no violations of the electoral legislation were found at the polling station #19.
05.10.2012 Unbelievable “qualifications” of Salihorsk commission
The election commission of Salihorsk village election constituency #69 explained the reason for the disappearance of 12% (!) of electors from the electors' list at the polling station #76.
05.10.2012 Mahiliou observer asks the National Academy of Sciences to check the theory of probability
Aliaksei Paulouski, a former election observer at polling station #53 of the Mahiliou-Central election constituency #85, submitted an appropriate letter to the National Academy of Sciences. The reason for the address was the data of the election at his polling station which made him doubt in the theory of probability.
05.10.2012 Election commission of the Savetskaya election constituency in Homel refuses to review the election results
“There are no reasons to find the election at the Homel-Savetskaya election constituency #34 invalid”, this is the answer received by a former candidate for the Parliament Ihar Sluchak.
04.10.2012 Mahiliou: election commission turns down another appeal against turnover overstatement
The Mahiliou-Central constituency election commission #85 turned down an appeal of a former candidate for the Parliament, activist of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) Anastasiya Voitava, who argued that the observers' assessments of the turnout didn't match with that announced by the commission and therefore asked to recognize the election at the constituency as invalid.
03.10.2012 Central Election Commission gives similar answers to all appeals of Homel observers
The observers' appeals mainly concerned manipulations with the turnout at the precincts (as a rule, the numbers stated by the election commissions were twice larger than that of the observers).
02.10.2012 Civil activist Mikalai Ulasevich charged with insubordination to police
On 2 October two police officers came to Mikalai Ulasevich apartment and drew up a report for alleged insubordination to police (Article 23.4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) which had allegedly taken place on 21 September.
