News on the topic: presidential elections-2010
03.11.2010 Central Election Commission continues ignoring violations made by Lukashenka’s campaign team
The citizen of Aziory (the Hrodna region) Kanstantsin Dzmitryieu received an answer to his complaint to the Central Election Commission, signed by the CEC Chairperson Lidziya Yarmoshyna.
03.11.2010 Verification of signatures in support of candidates for president in Mazyr
On 2
November the Mazyr District Election Commission held a sitting to verify the
signatures that had been collected in support of nomination of candidates for
president of the Republic of Belarus. According to the commission Chairperson
Mikhail Pashynski, the commission received signatures in support of 7
candidates.
03.11.2010 Brest region: websites of district election commissions cover ‘Question to President’ instead of presidential election
According
to the vast majority of official websites, the main event these days is not the
end of collection of signatures for nomination of candidates for president and formation
of precinct election commissions, but the informational action Question to President which they
actively advertise.
03.11.2010 Barysau: what’s not prohibited… is not prescribed by law
The Barysau District Executive Committee didn’t let the observers of the Barysau town organization of the Belarusian Language Society Aleh Matskevich and Maryna Statkevich observe the sitting on formation of precinct election commissions. The refusal, signed by the committee Chairperson Uladzimir Miranovich, reads: ‘Articles 13 and 34 of the Electoral Code don’t provide observers with the right to observe the procedure of the formation of precinct election commissions. In the view of the aforesaid we have to refuse in granting Your request.’
03.11.2010 Hrodna district: precinct commissions defined by sterility
It took the Hrodna
District Executive Committee just 7 minutes (!) to form 40 precinct election commissions in the Hrodno district.
According to the ‘established tradition’, the lists of
the commissions’ members weren’t read and the candidacies weren’t discussed. Among
the persons who were included in the commissions there are 26 representatives
of the ‘state NGO’ Belaya Rus, 24
representatives of the pro-governmental Belarusian Republican Youth Union
(BRSM), 37 representatives of the Belarusian Union of Women, 101 nominees of
state trade unions, 4 representatives of collectives of institutions and enterprises
and 280 persons nominated by collecting electors’ signatures. The sitting was
attended by the observers Uladzimir Khilmanovich and Mikola Voran.
03.11.2010 Mahiliou: democrats not included in precinct commissions of Kastrychnitski district
On 2 November the Kastrychnitski District Executive Committee held a sitting to form the precinct election commissions on the territory of the district. The United Civil Party, the Belarusian Leftist Party Fair World, the NGO BPF Adradzhenne and the Mahiliou Human Rights Center nominated 33 representatives to the commissions, but none of them were included in them.
03.11.2010 Tsentralny district of Homel: 51 precinct election commissions formed within 14 minutes by unanimous voting
The Tsentralny District
Executive Committee (DEC) of Homel formed the precinct election commissions of the district at its sitting
on 2 November. According to the member of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee
Viktar Adzinochanka, the sitting lasted 14 minutes, during which 51 election
commission were formed.
03.11.2010 Election of the President of Belarus 2010: Weekly Analytical Review (October 25-31)
Of 238 complaints lodged with the assistance of “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” campaign’s lawyers from the beginning of the election campaign, only 9 have been satisfied (those related to decisions of local authorities about places where pickets for collecting signatures were prohibited). Central and territorial election commissions have rejected all complaints related to the violation of the electoral legislation by the initiative group of Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
02.11.2010 Dziarzhynsk: member of campaign team of Andrei Sannikau gets fined
On October 12 the volunteer Aliaksandr Tarnahurski was collecting signatures in support of the candidacy of Andrei Sannikau in a residential house, and when he left one of the doors, a police car arrived and policemen asked him what he had been doing. Tarnahurski said that he collected signatures, and showed his passport and the certificate of a member of Sannikau’s campaign team. Policemen detained him and drew up a report for absence of a reflector.
02.11.2010 Khotsimsk: nominees of NGO BPF ‘Adradzhenne’ weren’t included in precinct election commissions
The sitting of the Khotsimsk District Executive Committee on formation of the precinct election commission took place at 9.30 a.m. on 1 October.
02.11.2010 Central Election Commission denies that campaign team of Aliaksandr Lukashenka violated the electoral law
The
civil activists Mikita Krasnou and Viachaslau Dziyanau
received from the CEC a response to their complaint concerning the use of administrative resources for
collecting signatures in support of nomination Aliaksandr Lukashenka a
candidate for president. In particular, they pointed out that students of
Belarusian University of Informatics and Radio Electronics had to stand in
Lukashenka’s electoral pickets during their study time, and their work was
‘supervised’ by a the member of Lukashenka’s campaign team Aliaksandr Khmyl,
the university provost on education. The CEC Chairperson Lidziya Yarmoshyna
considers this complaint groundless.
02.11.2010 Brest region: some representatives of BPF Party included in precinct commissions
Some
of the representatives nominated by the Belarusian Popular Front to precinct
election commissions of the Brest region were included in the commission. In
particular, in the Drahichyn district the authorities included in the
commission 2 out of 5 nominees, in the Malaryta district – 2 out of 4, 1 - in
the Ivatsevichy district and 3 – in the Kobryn district.
02.11.2010 Pinsk district: 70 precinct commissions formed for 5 minutes
On 1 November the joint sitting of the Pinsk District Executive Committee and the Presidium of the Pinsk District Council on formation of precinct election commissions took place. The opposition parties and democratic NGOs didn’t nominate any representatives to the precinct commissions, that’s why the ‘formation’ of all 70 commissions took very little time, a little more than 5 minutes.
02.11.2010 Mahiliou: discrepancy in the numbers of received signatures
According
to the information received by human rights activists from members of the
Kastrychnitski and the Leninski district election commissions, the greatest
number of signatures was collected for President Aliaksandr Lukashenka - 30,582.
Then come Aliaksei Mikhalevich with 24,196 signatures, Uladzimir Niakliayeu
with 16,598 signatures, Ryhor Kostuseu with 16,545 signatures and Yaraslau Ramanchuk
with 12,835 signatures. Members of the campaign teams also collected 12,381
signatures for Mikalai Statkevich, 8,981 – for Andrei Sannikau, 9,044 – for
Dzmitry Us, 7,123 – for Viktar Tsiareshchanka, 6,047 – for Vital Rymasheuski
and only 57 signatures for Yury Hlushakou.
02.11.2010 Slonim: executive officer of Slonim District Executive Committee ‘knows nothing’ about precinct election commissions
The
long-term observer from Slonim Ivan Sheha keeps visiting the executive officer
of the executive committee Alena Machalina and phoning her several times a day
in order to find the date and place of the sitting of the committee on
formation of the precinct commissions. However, she just answers ‘I don’t know
anything yet’ each time.
