News on the topic: political parties & movements
24.04.2010 Horki district: headmistress forces teachers to vote for ‘worthy’ candidate
According to information of teachers of the Ausiankava secondary school, the headmistress Liudmila Bandarenka forced them to vote early at the general assembly of the school.
24.04.2010 Vitsebsk: BCD activist issued with a warning
Alena Shabunia, a member of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party running for the Vitsebsk Regional and District Councils of Deputies, received an official warning from the appropriate territorial election commissions for holding electoral pickets with musical accompaniment.
23.04.2010 UCP activist detained in Vaukavysk
The United Civil Party member Vital Huliak was detained by Vaukavysk police for distributing postcards of the ‘Tell the Truth’ public campaign and taken to the police station, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
22.04.2010 Three more Young Front activists detained
On 21 April the Minsk police detained three Young Front activists Uladzimer Yaromenka, Uladzimer Dziaviatka and Ilya Murayeu for distributing the Chernobyl Shliakh-2010 newspaper, advertising the event, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
22.04.2010 Young Front activist detained ahead of Chernobyl Shliakh
Mikola Dzemidzenka, deputy chair of the Young Front movement, was arrested by the police for distributing leaflets advertising the annual Chernobyl Shliakh demonstration in Minsk’s Yakub Kolas square on 21 April.
19.04.2010 Youth activist Finkevich fined
Today, on 19 April Judge Khoma of Minsk Leninski Court fined the Young Belarus activist Artur Finkevich BYR 17,500 for participating in a picket of support for the Vaukavysk entrepreneur Mikalai Autukhovich staged outside the building of the Belarusian Supreme Court on 16 April, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
16.04.2010 Young Front activists detained
Five Young Front activists as well as two journalists were arrested by the police following the youth movement’s rally staged in front of the BRSM pro-government youth organization Minsk Office, European Radio for Belarus reports. The detainees have reportedly been taken to Minsk City Police Department and later transported to Leninski police department.
14.04.2010 Hrodna: candidate of BPF Party withdraws from elections
Mikola Lemianouski, a member of the Hrodna organization of the Belarusian Popular Front Party, refused to run for the Hrodna city Council of Deputies at election constituency #22, where he was registered as a candidate. He addressed the Hrodna city election commission with a detailed explanation of his position. He states that there is no real democratization of the electoral process despite the supplements that were introduced in the Election Code, and emphasizes that representatives of democratic parties weren’t included in precinct commissions (in particular, only 1 out of 16 nominees of the BPF Party was included in a precinct commission).
14.04.2010 Candidate gets excluded from electoral race for participation in opposition demonstration
Anastasiya Azarka, a candidate to the Rudauka local Council of Deputies and a member of the Young Belarus, was told in the election commission that she had been removed from the ballot.
14.04.2010 Homel: people in mufti shoot electoral picket on video
Yauhen Yakavenka and Kastus Zhukouski, members of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, are candidates for deputies of the Homel regional council. They have been holding electoral pickets in Homel for several days already. Mr. Zhukouiski held his first picket near the Festyvalny Culture Palace, without any incidents. The following day Zhukouski and Yakavenka started using a loudspeaker in their agitation work, which attracted a scrupulous attention of the local police. On 9 April policemen and people in mufti approached the picket near the culture palace and started shooting the action on video.
14.04.2010 Homel regional court didn’t grant complaint of BPF member
On 9 April the Homel regional court considered the complaint against the non-registration of Uladzimir Tseliapun, a member of the Belarusian Popular Front Party, as a candidate for the Mazyr district Council of Deputies.
09.04.2010 Vitsebsk: will electors come to precinct located 3 km away from their home?
The candidate for the Vitsebsk regional Council of Deputies Iryna Akulionak, activist of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party Narodnaya Hramada, has to defend the electoral rights of citizens of the Budaunichaya constituency #58 where she is running. The matter is that dwellers of Bileva, a new suburb of Vitsebsk, had been assigned to the precinct that is located in secondary school #12 that is situated more than three kilometers away from the suburb. It means that many people will have to get to the precinct by public transport, sometimes even with changes.
09.04.2010 Babruisk: court refuses to exclude candidate from electoral race
On 9 April the Mahiliou regional court considered the lawsuit of Viachaslau Sheleh, a member of the Belarusian Christian Democracy concerning the non-registration of his candidacy for the Babruisk town Council of Deputies. Meanwhile, Mr. Sheleh was registered as a candidate for the Mahiliou regional council. The signature sheets in support of his candidacy are identical in the both cases. However, the Babruisk town election commissions had allegedly found some invalid signatures, whereas the Mahiliou regional election commission hadn't found any.
09.04.2010 Minsk: don't workers of housing service know the law?
On 8 April, workers of a housing service tore away agitation leaflets of candidate Vadzim Kanapatski, Deputy Chairperson of the Minsk city organization of the Belarusian Popular Front, from the notice boards in Barastsianskaya Street, on the territory of the Pershamaiskaya election constituency #56. When the candidate asked them about the reasons, they answered that the head of the housing service ordered them to clear the boards of any information that had no relation to the housing service.
08.04.2010 Homel regional council of the BPF Party decided to revoke its candidate
The Homel district council of the Belarusian Popular Front Party held a sitting at which it was decided to revoke its candidate, medic of the Homel city polyclinic Vasil Ramanau who was running at election constituency #8. As a result, the constituency will become non-alternative – only the pro-governmental candidate Viktar Shutau, manager of motor car park #8 will run there.
