News on the topic: elections-2012
02.10.2012 Salihorsk prosecutor's office turns down complaint of ex-candidate
At the beginning of the previous week Viktar Malochka, a former candidate for the Parliament at Salihorsk city election constituency #68, filed a complaint to the Salihorsk District Prosecutor's Office and the Salihorsk City Election Commission, demanding to re-calculate the ballots at precinct #15 and compare this number with the list of electors. A similar complaint was also filed by his electioneering agent Aliaksandr Malochka.
02.10.2012 Barysau: election commission unable to check whether there were any violations
Human rights defender Aleh Matskevich received an answer to his complaint Barysau election constituency #62 almost a week after the end of the election.
28.09.2012 Minsk: election commission confirms approves election results without considering observers’ complaints
According to observer Natallia Mankouskaya, the election commission of Hrushauskaya constituency #98 in Minsk approved the results of the local election without considering two complaints it had received from observers.
28.09.2012 Prosecutor’s office of Orsha forwards appeals against election frauds to election commissions
As stated by the Orsha coordinator of the “For Free Elections” campaign Mikalai Dziamidau, he filed four appeals against irregularities in the work of election commissions.
26.09.2012 Home voting in Orsha district beat all records
Information from the polling station of Dniaprouskaya election constituency #27 in Orsha is astonishing even against the background of the voiced violations during the recent “election” to the Chamber of Representatives.
26.09.2012 Members of election commission had to flee from elderly elector in Orsha district
A funny incident happened in the village of Prydniaprouye in the Orsha district. Members of a precinct election commission came there with a portable ballot box for home voting. As it was found, many electors didn't ask for such “care”.
26.09.2012 Babruisk resident singed out from hospital after refusal to vote
The Babruisk resident Inha Sudzilouskaya was suddenly signed out from a hospital in Babruisk after she refused to vote.
25.09.2012 Invalid ballots miraculously disappeared from polling stations in Orsha
As the “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” has already told, on 18 September, the first day of the early voting, some electors were issued ballots with the surname of Aliaksei Tsikhanenkau, a candidate of the United Civil Party who stopped running on decision of the party shortly before the voting period. 37 ballots with his surname were issued to electors at polling station #8 on 18 September.
25.09.2012 Baranavichy: observer registers a rapid growth of the number of home-voters
Independent observer Halina Yarashevich registered a rapid growth of the number of the electors who decided to vote at home at precinct #24 in Baranavichy-Eastern election constituency #6. On the election day, 23 September, this number increased from the initial 47 people to as many as 362.
25.09.2012 Masty: constituency election commission holds final sitting... in the nighttime
Masty constituency election commission #56 held its sitting to sum up the election results in secret. In the morning of 24 September an observer of the “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” Aleh Ramashkevich came to the building where the election commission was situated and was told that the sitting had been held late in the evening. In fact, if it was really so, it could be held only at night. The commission refused to present a copy of the final protocol to Ramashkevich, telling him to learn the results of the election several days after in the local press.
25.09.2012 MP Savanovich's candidacy wasn't nominated by labor collective of housing service (ZhES) #48
Workers of the enterprise composed a collective appeal to the Minsk City Procuracy asking to draw to criminal account the head of the housing economy #1 (ZhREA) of the Frunzenski districft Vasil Shashkawho is responsible for drafting the fictitious list of delegates who allegedly supported the nomination of Savanovich as a candidate for the parliament.
25.09.2012 Human rights defender Pavel Levinau demands that results of voting be declared invalid
Mr. Levinau filed two appeals to the Central Election Commission to report about violations at polling stations #52 and #58 of the Chkalauskaya election constituency in Vitsebsk. He proposes to annul the results of the voting there.
24.09.2012 Yarmoshyna: 109 members elected to the Chamber of Representatives in Belarus
According to preliminary information, 109 MPs were elected to the Chamber of Representatives as a result of the parliamentary election. This was stated by the head of the Central Election Commission Lidziya Yarmoshyna in the night of 23-24 September, during a press-conference on the results of the voting.
24.09.2012 Baranavichy: “Class supervisors didn’t force students, only informed them…”
The lecturers of the Baranavicy State University Natallia Maiseyenka and Hanna Verameyka didn’t force students to vote early, but just informed them about the possibility to do it on 18-22 September – this is the answer received by observer Siarhei Housha from the head of Baranavichy-Western constituency election commission #5 Tatsiana Latyshava.
24.09.2012 OSCE observers: the election in Belarus cannot be called free and impartial
Competition was limited and many OSCE commitments on citizens' democratic rights to associate, to stand as candidates and to express themselves freely were not respected in the 18-23 September parliamentary elections in Belarus, OSCE observers say in a preliminary report issued on 24 September, BelaPAN says. The organization intends to prepare a full-scale report within two months.
