News on the topic: elections-2014
04.02.2014 Baranavichy District Executive Committee conceals information about the establishment of PECs
Baranavichy District Executive Committee conceals information about the electoral process. Such conclusion was made by a human rights activist Siarhei Housha who tried to get at least any information about the sitting of the executive committee for establishment of precinct election commissions appointed on February 3.
04.02.2014 BPF members in Pinsk district refuse to run in “elections”
Members of the BPF party from Pinsk announced their final decision at the regional assembly of the party in Brest.
03.02.2014 Electoral picket of Maryna Khomich attacked by people in mufti
Unidentified people hinder the picket of the speaker of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, leader of the organizing committee of the public association “Young Christian Democracy” Maryna Khomich.
03.02.2014 Policeman threatens to pinion participants of BCD rally and take them to woods
The incident took place on Sunday near Belarus supermarket, where a member of Zavadski district’s electoral commission Volha Kryzhanouskaja together with policemen (the surname of one of them was Bobryk) demanded to stop a rally collecting signatures for nominating a candidate for municipal elections from the party Belarusian Christian Democracy.
03.02.2014 MP says requirement to report to electorate is absurd
Chairman of the Brest City Council Henadz Masko considers absurd the requirement that members of the council report to the people acting on behalf of the civil initiative "Social Office".
03.02.2014 Bialynichy: signatures for pro-governmental candidates collected during working hours
The process of nomination of candidates to the Bialynichy District Council and the Mahiliou Regional Council is going on quite actively. In particular, Head of the Mahiliou Regional branch of the National Bank of Belarus and acting Deputy Chairman of the Mahiliou Regional Council Raisa Lychkovskaya was nominated a candidate for the Mahiliou Regional Council of the 27 Convocation.
03.02.2014 Homel police demand that white-red-white flag be removed from electoral picket
On 1 February the civil campaign "Tell the Truth!" held a picket to collect signatures for nomination of its activists as candidates. All in all, “Tell the Truth!” in Homel supports 23 people who intend to run for the city and the regional councils. The picket was helded opposite the train station. The activists used the logos of “Tell the Truth!” “People's Referendum” and a white-red-white flag.
03.02.2014 Supreme Court dismisses appeal against annulment of registration of electoral teams
Mikalai Ulasevich, civil society activist from the Astravets district, received an official response from the Supreme Court, where he tried to appeal the decision of the Central Electoral Commission to cancel the registration of his two initiative groups.
31.01.2014 Mazyr: observer not allowed to attend formation of precinct commissions
Officials of Mazyr district executive committee did not allow local human rights defender Uladzimir Tseliapun to attend a meeting convened to form the precinct election commissions for the upcoming local elections, despite having been delegated by the Belarusian Helsinki Committee.
30.01.2014 Vitsebsk Regional Court turns down Tell the Truth election complaint
On January 29, one of the leaders of the civil campaign "Tell the Truth" Siarhei Vazniak was appealing to the Vitsebsk Regional Court a refusal to register his campaign teams. As a result, the Court upheld the previous decisions of the district and regional electoral commissions.
30.01.2014 Brest police attempt to disrupt election campaigning rally
Representatives of the coalition "Talaka", which includes members of the Belarusian Left Party "Fair World", the United Civil Party, the organization "Young Belarus" and other organizations, staged today their first joint event during an election campaigning picket in Brest.
30.01.2014 Babruisk: Election campaigning under police surveillance (photo)
The first picket to collect signatures for candidates of the campaign "Tell the Truth", Alena Miadzvedzeva, Uladzimir Shcharbatykh, Anastasia Miadzvedzeva and Aksana Samuilava, was staged on Tuesday at the entrance to the Babruisk-based market "Paunochny".
27.01.2014 Zhodzina election commission denies access to official documents
At the third meeting of the Zhodzina Election Commission, which was held on January 17, the election officials considered the question of reprimanding observer Aliaksei Lapitski.
24.01.2014 Mikalai Ulasevich appeals CEC’s decision in court
Mikalai Ulasevich, an activist from the village of Varniany, Hrodna region, sent on January 23 a complaint to the Supreme Court to challenge the decision of the Central Committee. On January 21, the CEC canceled the registration of Mikalai Ulasevich two campaign teams, arguing that District Election Commission had violated paragraph 5 of Article 60 of the Electoral Code, under which a citizen can be a candidate for the local council in only one constituency. Meanwhile, Astravets District Election Commission in its decision of 17 January registered both groups.
24.01.2014 No chance to appeal formation of Brest City Electoral Commission
Human rights defenders and pro-democratic activists from Brest appealed the decision of the Presidium of the Brest City Council of Deputies and the Brest City Executive Committee of 27 December on the formation of the City Election Commission ahead of the local council elections scheduled for March 23.
