News on the topic: presidential elections-2010
15.11.2010 Mazyr: conditions for canvassing are getting worse
The Mazyr District Executive Committee determined the places where the candidates for President and their proxies would be allowed to hold canvassing. The appropriate ruling considerably reduced the number of places where indoor and outdoor electoral meetings can be held and limited the number of places for putting electoral materials in comparison with the previous election.
15.11.2010 Hrodna region: black list of ‘unreliable persons’ keeps growing
On 14 November the activist of the campaign team of Vital Rymasheuski Mikola Bausiuk was detained at the frontier point Pryvalka. He was set down the bus by which he was returning home from Lithuania and kept at the frontier point for about 2 hours. He was subject to personal examination. His belongings were searched as well. Mr. Bausiuk is convinced that such attention from the side of border guards is connected to his participation in the electoral process.
15.11.2010 Activists of Speak Truth detained for flash-mob
Activists of the civil campaign Speak Truth held a street actions You should Hide Garbage, Not Votes. They put black garbage bags on litter bins and posted on them stickers You should Hide Garbage, Not Votes.
12.11.2010 Hrodna region: courts side with local authorities
Judge of the Leninski District Court of Hrodna Liudmila Zhukouskaya considered as groundless the complaint against the non-inclusion of a 21-year-old member of the United Civil Party in a precinct election commission (PEC). In the Kastrychnitski District Court, Judge Valiantsina Mokhan turned down the complaint against the non-inclusion of 8 members of the UCP, though during the trial it was discovered that the documents for the nomination of representatives of pro-governmental organizations to the PECs were drawn with violation of the legal requirements. By the way, now the UCP members demand a graphologic expertise of these documents and are going to continue struggling for justice.
12.11.2010 Mahiliou: court turns down complaints of oppositionists
On 10 and 11 November the Kastrychnitski District Court of Mahiliou considered three lawsuits against the non-inclusion of representatives of the democratic community in precinct election commissions. The Belarusian Leftist Party sued against the non-inclusion of 9 representatives, the NGO BPF Adradzhenne – 12, and the Mahiliou Human Rights Center - 3 representatives.
12.11.2010 Results of verification of signatures in Homel regiona
On 11 November the Homel Region Election Commission held a sitting to sum up the results of the verification of signatures in support of the potential candidates for President.
12.11.2010 Authorities determine places for electoral meetings (information from regions)
The Smarhon Town Executive Committee determined the places for canvassing, electoral meetings and pickets under the agreement of the Smarhon Town Election Commission.
12.11.2010 Central Election Commission confirms that Mazyr DEC violated electoral legislation?
The Mazyr human rights defender Uladzimir Tseliapun received an answer to his complaint concerning the legality of the ruling of the Mazyr District Executive Committee concerning the establishment of the ‘working group’ that had in fact formed the lists of members of the precinct election commission sin the Mazyr district. The CEC Chairperson Lidziya Yarmoshyna admitted that some of the provisions of that ruling ‘don’t completely correspond to requirements of the electoral legislation’, but stated that the observer had no right to observe the actions of this ‘working group’.
12.11.2010 New information about composition of precinct election commissions
The analysis of the personnel of the PECs of the Orsha district shows that there is the greatest representation of the Belarusian Union of Women in them – its nominees were included in 38 out of 43 commissions. There are representatives of the Belarusian republican association of veterans in 35 PECs, and representatives of the Trade Union of Agricultural Industry – in 34.
12.11.2010 Youth activist directed to psychiatric hospital for membership in campaign team of Uladzimir Niakliayeu
One of the most known activists of the Salihorsk branch of the campaign team of Uladzimir Niakliayeu, member of the Young Front Andrei Tychyna was detained at a street action on 7 November and guarded to the Salihorsk Military Enlistment Office, where he was issued a writ for medical examination.
11.11.2010 Barysau: people forced to meet with candidate Lukashenka
The potential candidate for President, President Lukashenka is coming for an electoral meeting in Barysau on 12 November. The meeting will take place outdoors, on the construction site of the new stadium. Students of the Barysau colleges and vocational schools are obliged to come there for fear of expulsion from the educational establishments.
11.11.2010 Babruisk: strange manipulations with signatures in support of Uladzimir Niakliayeu
The member of the electoral team of Uladzimir Niakliayeu Alena Miadzvedzeva paid a visit to the Pershamaiski District Election Commission to find about the number of the valid signatures in support of Mr. Niakliayeu.
11.11.2010 Members of BPF Party filed inquiries with Hrodna Border Group
The members of the Belarusian Popular Front Vadzim Saranchukou and Yauhen Skrabutan applied t the head of the Hrodna border group colonel I.Butkevich. They ask to explain why they had been detained and subject to personal examination (Mr. Skrabutan had been detained at the border crossing point Bruzgi (on the Polish border) on 5 November, and Mr. Saranchukou – at Pryvalka (the Lithuanian border).
11.11.2010 Salihorsk: will they find chair for observer this time?
The Salihorsk Town Executive Committee published the ruling On the formation of precinct election commissions Most of the commissions consist of workers of the institutions and enterprises on the territory of which the appropriate polling stations are situated, and are usually headed by their bosses at work. For instance, the schoolmistress of secondary school #9 Halina Shauchenka was nominated to PEC #1 by the Belarusian Union of Women. The PEC consists of workers of school #9 who were nominated to the commission in different ways: by collection of signatures of electors, by the labor collective of the school or by different public associations.
11.11.2010 Central Election Commission approves secrecy during verification of signatures
The Central Election Commission dismissed a complaint of the observer of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee Leanid Markhotka.
