News on the topic: elections-2012
22.09.2012 Fair World observer ejected from polling station in Zhlobin
Mrs. Ilona Tkachova, election agent of candidate Valery Rybchanka, member of the Fair World party running in Zhlobin constituency No. 40, has been expelled from polling station No. 15.
22.09.2012 Human rights defender demands to cancel early vote results in polling station in Vitsebsk
Human rights defender Pavel Levinau has addressed the Central Election Commission with a complaint against polling station election commission No. 52.
22.09.2012 Swedish journalists denied Belarusian visas
Swedish journalists were denied Belarusian visas after arriving at Minsk-2 international airport last evening.
22.09.2012 Monitoring Report on Election Campaigning
The legal basis for this year’s election campaigning was the amended version of the Electoral Code, which extended campaigning opportunities as compared to the parliamentary elections in 2008; however, the use of the new standards was curtailed by the executive authorities, resulting in a large number of candidates from the opposition parties being unable to transmit their position to the voters.
22.09.2012 CEC: Prompts have no “legal significance”
“A mark in any box of a sample ballot paper has no legal significance,” says the Central Election Commission in its reply to a complaint by Maladechna observer Ales Kaputski.
22.09.2012 600 election boycott leaflets seized in Brest
Brest police detained last evening three activists of Brest-based pro-democratic coalition “Spadchyna” (“Heritage”), as they were distributing leaflets calling for a boycott of the elections.
21.09.2012 Tell the Truth activist detained in Minsk
Aliaksei Mikulich, activist of the Tell the Truth civil campaign, was detained this afternoon, while distributing leaflets calling for a boycott of the lections in Minsk, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
21.09.2012 UCP observer ejected from polling station in Mahiliou
Yury Darashenka, observer representing the United Civil Party in Mahiliou, has been deprived of accreditation by head of polling station election commission No. 70 Vera Tsyrkunova.
21.09.2012 Brest and Baranavichy students forced to vote early
Extremely high voters’ turnout has been reported by independent observers at the polling stations of Brest and Baranavichy. Most of the voters are students of local education institutions, Brest State Technical University and Baranavichy State University, say the observers.
21.09.2012 Two more observers expelled from polling stations in Svetlahorsk
Two more observers representing the Fair World party have been expelled from the polling stations in Svetlahorsk district.
21.09.2012 Salihorsk observers petition election commissions for transparent vote count
The independent observers of two Salihorsk constituencies addressed local polling stations election commissions with a proposal to make the vote count procedures transparent for all the election commissioners and the observers present.
21.09.2012 Ivatsevichy policemen ordered to vote early
Mrs. Larysa Kolbik, deputy head of Ivatsevichy police department, reportedly ordered her employees to go to the polls on the first day of the early voting campaign, says observer Stanislau Khaladovich, registered in constituency No. 11.
20.09.2012 Vitsebsk: Observers have to see through walls
Nina Shubina, head of Vitsebsk-based constituency election commission No. 52, has not allowed observers having their working place in the room occupied by the polling station. The observers were forced to occupy a table in the adjoining room, instead.
20.09.2012 2 observers expelled from polling station in Homel
Two independent observers – Andrei Tsianiuta and Andrei Zhaleznichenka – were forced today to leave Homel-based polling station No. 3 located in constituency No. 33.
20.09.2012 Svetlahorsk district: 6 observers deprived of registration
Six observers representing the Fair World party have been deprived of accreditation at a number of polling stations of Svetlahorsk district.
