News on the topic: elections
05.08.2014 Members of Brest City Council are required to inform about time and place of meetings with electors
Activists of the civil initiative "Social Office" have filed a repeated appeal to five members of the Brest City Council and the head of this representative body, Mikalai Krasouski.
30.05.2014 Belarusian human rights defender: “Ukraine had true elections”
Leanid Markhotka, a human rights activist representing the Belarusian Helsinki Committee in the town of Salihorsk, participated in monitoring the presidential election in Ukraine. Upon returning home, the observer described the difference between the Belarusian and Ukrainian elections.
23.05.2014 Lukashenka’s words about ballot-rigging could entail impeachment
All manipulations with ballots are taking place at polling stations, not in district commissions. It has been said by a deputy chairman of Viasna human rights centre, a lawyer Valyantsin Stefanovich.
14.01.2014 First six electoral teams registered in Baranavichy
A sitting of Baranavichy city territorial election commission took place January 13. the commission considered the documents for registration of initiative groups to collect signatures for nomination of candidates for Baranavichy City Council of Deputies. The election commission registered all six electoral teams, whose registration documents had been filed before the sitting.
02.01.2014 Lidziya Yarmoshyna refuses to hold new election at Krychau election constituency No. 83
The head of the Central Election Commission Lidziya Yarmoshyna refused to hold new elections of deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus at Krychau election constituency No. 83. The reason for the refusal to hold elections was that the term of the deputacy of Uladzimir Krautsou, elected to the House of Representatives in this constituency, wasn't over.
03.12.2013 Local elections to be held 23 March
The date of the local elections was approved by Aliaksandr Lukashenka during a meeting with the head of the Central Commission on Elections and Holding Republican Referenda, Lidziya Yarmoshyna.
14.11.2013 Yarmoshyna tells about presidential election and ban on boycotts
The presidential campaign in Belarus will start in August 2015.
05.11.2013 Party of Communists of Belarus and ideologists prepare to the local elections together
Several days ago, an enlarged plenum of the Mahiliou Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus and the regional ideologists took place. According to the internet website of the Asipovichy district newspaper "Asipovitski krai", the ideologists and the pro-government Communists “have clearly have clearly defined the objectives for each stage of the electoral campaign which will start in December”.
23.10.2013 Central Election Commission fails to submit amendments to Electoral Code to OSCE ODIHR representatives
This was announced during a meeting of international experts with the Belarusian human rights activists. The human rights defenders are concerned over the mystery that accompanies the adoption of the bill that will be heard tomorrow is the second reading of the Parliament. As yet, the document is not available to the public.
09.10.2013 Uladzimir Katsora requires MIA and the Office of the Prosecutor General to bring a criminal case
On 8 October Homel activist Uladimir Katsora, the leader of the Conference “For honest and fair elections for a better life" filed a statement about a criminal offence committed by a policeman to the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General of Belarus.
08.10.2013 Amendments to the Electoral legislation condemned by 12 political parties and movements
The leader of the civil campaign "Tell the Truth" Uladzimir Niakliayeu believes that the amendments to the electoral laws do not allow to make the elections free, fair or transparent.
02.10.2013 Elections to local councils to take place in March
The secretary of the Central Election Commission Mikalai Lazavik said that the CEC saw no pre-conditions for correcting the date of election of members of local councils.
27.08.2013 Vitsebsk BPF leader petitions Parliament over plans to outlaw election boycott campaigning
Leanid Autukhou, Vitsebsk leader of the Belarusian Popular Front, sent a statement to the Legislation Commission of the House of Representatives.
05.08.2013 Zhlobin: prosecutor's office issues a protest against justification of member of “Fair World”
The Zhlobin District Prosecutor's Office filed a protest to the Homel Regional Court against the decision of the Zhlobin District Court to acquit the member of the Belarusian Leftist Party “Fair World” Yauhen Basareuski of all charges..
22.07.2013 Human rights defenders send results of independent election monitoring to government agencies
About 200 copies of the book “Elections to the Chamber of Representatives of the Fifth Convocation. September 23, 2012. Results of Independent Observation.” were sent by the activists of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” to various government agencies, libraries, members of the Chamber of Representatives, embassies, and all those who are interested in the assessments of election law and conclusions of observers during the parliamentary elections in 2012.
