News on the topic: local council elections-2010
17.04.2010 Orsha authorities censure election leaflets
Mikalai Petrushenka, running for the Vitsebsk Regional Council, lodged a complaint with Orsha Town Prosecutor’s Office, after the local publishing house declared his election leaflets could only be printed after being approved by the town executive authorities.
17.04.2010 Baranavichy activist appeals forgery by local election commission at prosecutor’s office
On 16 April Mikalai Charnavus, who was refused registration as a candidate for the Baranavichy Town Council and Brest Regional Council due to ‘fake signatures’ allegedly collected by his campaign team, lodged a complaint with the town’s prosecutor’s office and the Central Election Commission.
17.04.2010 Mazyr authorities gum up campaigns of independent candidates
Candidates Franak Viachorka, running for the Mazyr District Council, and Uladzimir Tseliapun, running for the Homel Regional Council, claim that they were forced to meet their voters outside the building of House of Culture ‘40tth Anniversary of October’, after the premises appeared to be occupied by a film screening.
17.04.2010 Local official orders to strip off BPF Adradzhennie candidate’s posters
Anton Tsydzik, member of the BPF Adradzhennie Party, running for the Mahiliou City Council, reports that all his election posters have been stripped off.
17.04.2010 Mazyr constituency election commission violates work schedule
Mazyr constituency election commission #43 has been repeatedly violating its work schedule, says Uladzimir Tseliapun, running for the Homel Regional Council. The candidate claims that he has repeatedly found the commissioners absent from work, which was reported to the commission’s secretary Ms. Y.M.Pinchuk and later to the Central Election Commission in Minsk.
16.04.2010 Pro-government candidate abuses election law
The pro-government candidate running for the Mahiliou Regional Council Viktar Lazarenka uses the Belposhta national post network while maintaining campaigning for voters, says local Belarusian Christian Democracy activist Kanstantsin Tyrtychny. The activist claims that he received the latest issue of the Sovetskaya Belorussia newspaper with the loyal candidate’s leaflet inside.
16.04.2010 Barysau local newspaper ignores election campaign
The latest issue of the Barysau district state-owned newspaper Adzinstva fails to publish a single article on the progress of the local election campaign, with only ten days remaining till the day of the election, local human rights activists say.
16.04.2010 International observers to be accredited for Belarus’ local elections on 19-30 April
International observers will be accredited to monitor the elections to the local Councils of Deputies of Belarus on 19-30 April. The relevant decision was made at a session of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus on 15 April, BelTA has learnt.
16.04.2010 Salihorsk independent candidate subject to negative campaigning
The staff of ideology departments at Salihorsk state enterprises was ordered to persuade the employees not to vote for the local independent candidate Aliaksandr Valabuyeu. Several employees of the town’s state-run enterprises claim they were warned about the inadmissibility of voting for the independent candidate.
16.04.2010 Orsha UCP candidate quits election
Aliaksei Tsikhanenkau, United Civil Party activist, will not be running for the Vitsebsk Regional Council, says the official statement submitted by the ex-candidate to the constituency election commission #32. The statement names lack of opportunities to exercise control over the transparency of the elections and the recent decision by the UCP as main reasons for the withdrawal.
16.04.2010 Vitsebsk opposition candidate warned
Vitsebsk City Eelction Commission issued an official warning to Belarusian Popular Front activist Uladzimir Ramanavich, who is running for the Vitsebsk City Council, following an incident on 9 April on the territory of students’ hostel #2 of Vitsebsk Techological University. The candidate was accused of organising an unauthorized canvassing picket.
15.04.2010 Baranavichy: Ryhor Hryk is not going to put up with lies of city election commission
The member of the For Freedom movement Ryhor Hryk who hadn’t been registered as a candidate for the Baranavichy City Council by the Baranavichy City Election Commission because of ‘invalidity of signatures’, lodged complaints with the Central Election Commission and the Baranavichy City Procuracy after the failed attempt to get the justice at the Brest Regional Election Commission and the Brest Regional Court.
15.04.2010 Information at website of Barysau District Executive Committee is incomplete and inaccurate
The website of the Barysau District Executive Committee has a section dedicated to the upcoming elections. However, the information is incomplete and sometimes inaccurate.
15.04.2010 Hrodna regional prosecutor fails to see any law violations
The Hrodna human rights defender Raman Yurhel, a representative of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, receive an answer from the Hrodna regional procurator Viktar Maroz to his complaint concerning violations of the electoral legislation.
15.04.2010 Salihorsk ideologists got a scholding
On 14 April a sitting of the Salihorsk ideologists took place. One of the main issues on the agenda is the upcoming elections to the local Councils of Deputies. Despite the evident formality and non-publicity of the elections, two problems were discovered – two democratic candidates who had received official registration and conducted agitation campaign, Aliaksei Valabuyeu and Viktar Yaumenenka.
