News on the topic: local council elections-2010
06.04.2010 Polatsk district: candidates can’t get their agitation materials printed
About two weeks are left till the beginning of the voting. However, many independent candidates still don’t have printed agitation materials.
06.04.2010 Vitsebsk: 4 candidates of ‘Fair World’ withdrew from elections
The Vitsebsk city election commission granted the applications of four candidates of the Belarusian Party of Leftists Fair World for withdrawal from the elections. Halina Bareika withdrew from the Lazouskaya election constituency #12, Lidziya Sadulina – from the Shkolnaya election constituency #24, Halina Bahdanava – from the Paudniovaya election constituency #25 and Yulia Valadzko – from the Kirauskaya election constituency #25.
06.04.2010 Homel coalition of United Democratic Forces withdraws from elections
The Homel coalition of the United Democratic Forces (the Belarusian Party of Leftists Fair World and the United Civil Party) withdraws its candidates from the elections. This decision was taken by the council of the Homel regional UCP organization and the Homel regional committee of the Fair World. However, three members of each party continue running in the electoral race.
06.04.2010 Baranavichy city procuracy again evades from implementing its duties
Observer Siarhei Housha received another runaround from the Baranavichy city procuracy, signed by prosecutor I.Palyka. As usual, the prosecutor didn’t give a substantial answer. He just wrote that his application was forwarded to colonel V.Herasimovich, head of the main police department, for holding a check-up.
06.04.2010 39 electors 'went missing' in Svetlahorsk district
Mikalai Lazarenka and Iryna Sarychava, members of constituency election commissions of the Svetlahorsk district (Homel region) who were nominated to the commissions by the Belarusian Party of Leftists Fair World, found a mismatch in the data published by two different commissions and addressed Siarhei Miarkulau, Chairperson of the Svetlahorsk district election commissions, Deputy Chairperson of the Svetlahorsk district executive committee on ideology, with an appropriate letters.
06.04.2010 Official press refuses to publish Franak Viachorka's electoral program
The state-owned Mazyr newspaper Zhyttsio Palessia refused to publish the program of candidate Franak Viachorka.
05.04.2010 Babruisk: Viachaslau Sheleh appeals against the registration denial
Viachaslau Sheleh, a member of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, lodged a complaint with the Mahiliou regional court against the decision of the Babruisk town election commission to deny him registration as a candidate for deputy. The case will be tried this week.
05.04.2010 Hrodna: regional TV shows public address of candidate Zarembiuk in wrong time
Ales Zarembiuk, representative of the regional branch of the For Freedom movement, candidate for the Hrodna regional Council of Deputies at the Malyshchynskaya election constituency #8, filed a complaint with the Central Election Commission after his electoral address was broadcast at the wrong time by the Hrodna regional TV and radio association.
05.04.2010 Vitsebsk region: paradoxes of election campaign
One can find some unexplainable paradoxes during analysis of election data in certain towns of the Vitsebsk region.
05.04.2010 No 'elegant victory' in Barysau?
The Barysau district election commission headed by Mikalai Zeliankevich refused to register pensioner Tamara Kavazhenka as a candidate for the district Council of Deputies. Thanks to her active struggle for solving the problem of impoundment of the yards of the Dymki suburb, the woman became quite popular among the local dwellers and earned their respect. That's why she easily collected more than 500 signatures in support of her candidacy.
05.04.2010 Baranavichy: entrepreneur Charnavus appeals against non-registration of his candidacy
On 2 April entrepreneur Mikalai Charnavus lodged with the Brest regional court a complaint against his non-registration as a candidate for the Baranavichy city Council of Deputies, expressing disagreement with the ruling of the Brest regional election commission that left standing the ruling of the Baranavichy city election commission concerning the registration denial.
05.04.2010 Polatsk district: little information at official websites
Ten days have passed since the registration of candidates for the local Councils of Deputies. However, the lists of the registered candidates still haven't been uploaded to the majority of websites of the local executive committees.
02.04.2010 Central Election Commission asks Ministry of Defense to give F.Viachorka furloughs for electoral campaigning
Frantsishak Viachorka, candidate for the Mazyr district Council of Deputies, received an answer from Lidziya Yarmoshyna to his complaint to the Central Election Commission.
02.04.2010 ’Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections’: 31.9% of democratic activists weren’t registered as candidates for the elections
The experts of the Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections campaign made a more precise calculation of the percentage of the representatives of the democratic opposition who weren’t registered as candidates for the local Councils of Deputies of the 26th Convocation.
02.04.2010 Brest region: non-alternative elections everywhere but Brest
The elections for the local Councils of Deputies will be non-alternative in the Brest region, as there are almost no independent and opposition candidates competing with the pro-governmental ones anywhere except for Brest.
