News on the topic: elections-2014
08.02.2014 Homel region: courts uphold non-inclusion of “Fair World” members in election commissions
February 7, two appeals against the non-inclusion of members of the Belarusian Left Party "Fair World" in precinct election commissions were considered by courts.
08.02.2014 Vitsebsk region has few places for election campaigning
The official websites of executive committees and regional newspapers published the decisions of local authorities, who determined theplaces for outdoors meetings with voters. The number of such places differs in each district, and quite often such places are quite far from the town centers.
08.02.2014 Concealment of information about the results of PECs formation appealed to Central Election Commission
A resident of Biaroza Tamara Shchapiotkina appealed to the CEC, pointing that the meeting of the Biaroza District Executive Committee on establishment of precinct election commissions did not comply with the principle of openness and transparency, guaranteed by Article 13, Part 1 of the Electoral Code. She also mentions that according to Art. Of the Law "On local government and self-government in the Republic of Belarus" the local administration is carried out including the principle of transparency.
07.02.2014 Vital Rymasheuski fined for "groundless call to police"
Former presidential candidate, co-chairman of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Vital Rymashevski was fined 16 basic units for participation in a picket near the Kamarouski market.
07.02.2014 Only nine partisans got incluled in the PECs created in Brest region
9,608 people were included in the 954 precinct election commissions created in the Brest region. The commissions are dominated by people who were nominated “by citizens” – 4,094 representatives (or 42.6 %).
07.02.2014 Aleh Ramashkevich warned for handing out newspapers in Vialikaya Berastavitsa
On February 6 at a local civil society activist Aleh Ramashkevich was invited to a meeting of the Berastavitsa District Election Commission, and later – to a meeting of a constituency election commission.
07.02.2014 Biaroza: 43 PECs established in three minutes
43 precinct election commission were established at a meeting of the Biaroza District Executive Committee. Participants of the meeting were handed down the lists of members of the PECs.
06.02.2014 “I will show the documents only at court and only to the judge”
This was the answer given by the head of the department of ideology, culture and youth affairs of the Brest City Executive Committee Aksana Dutchyk to election observer Uladzimir Vialichkin who attended the meeting of the Maskouski District Executive Committee of Brest on formation of precinct election commissions.
06.02.2014 Rechytsa: adverse discrimination of activists of “Fair World” during formation of PECs
February 4 a joint meeting of the Rechytsa District Executive Committee and the Rechytsa District Council was conducted to form precinct election commissions. The meeting was attended by election observer Valery Putsitski.
06.02.2014 Chair of Hrodna REC no longer heads the commission, but remains an MP
On February 5 Khotsimsk civil society activist Valery Karankevich received an answer from the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus to his repeated appeal to Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Uladzimir Andreichanka.
05.02.2014 Zhodzina: observer not allowed to attend meeting on creation of PECs
Chairman of Zhodzina City Executive Committee M. Amel'yanchuk answered the formal inquiry of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee about the time and place of the meeting on formation of precinct election commissions with the statement that independent observer Aliaksei Lapitski has no right to attend this event.
05.02.2014 Brest police pressurize participants of electoral pickets
As stated by Chairman of the Brest regional branch of the United Civil Party, Uladzimir Vuyek, the day after the electoral picket of the UCP candidate Dyiana Kastsiukovich, held on January 30, he received a subpoena to the police station.
05.02.2014 Salihorsk: establishment of PECs lacks transparency
Leanid Markhotka, long-term observer of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, states that the electoral process in the Salihorsk district lacks transparency. This is the conclusion he came to after attending the meeting of the Salihorsk District Executive Committee on formation of precinct election commissions, which was held in the morning on February 4 and lasted just 20 minutes.
05.02.2014 Hrodna: only admission of the observer is discussed during the formation of the PECs
On February 4 the district executive committees of Hrodna formed precinct election commissions.
04.02.2014 Vital Rymasheuski is summoned to police
Co-chair of the organizing committee of the party "Belarusian Christian Democracy" Vital Rymashevski has received a subpoena to the Savetski District Police Department of Minsk for February 7.
