News on the topic: presidential elections-2010
02.11.2010 Mahiliou region: democratic opposition delegated 121 representatives to precinct election commissions
818
precinct election commissions will be established in the Mahiliou region. 9,685
people were nominated to them, 3,571 of which – by political parties and NGOs,
4,286 – by collection of electors’ signatures and 1,828 – by collectives of
institutions and enterprises.
02.11.2010 Mazyr: ruling about ‘cultural program’ for international observers disappeared
Documents disappear from the website of the Mazyr District Executive Committee after publications of Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections.
02.11.2010 Precinct commissions are formed secretly in Biaroza and Zhodzina
The
Biaroza District Executive Committee (DEC) ignored the delegation by the Brest
Regional Council of the Belarusian Popular Front Party of three members of the
party to the sitting of the Biaroza DEC on formation of the precinct election
commissions.
02.11.2010 Mahiliou: signatures were counted in absence of observers
The Mahiliou human rights defenders Barys Bukhel and Aliaksei Kolchyn did not get to the sittings of the district election commissions, where the count of the number of signatures in support of the candidates for the presidency took place.
02.11.2010 Baranavichy: observer not permitted to observe verification of signature sheets
On 30 October observer Siarhei Housha visited the Baranavichy
City Territorial Election Commission and asked the duty committee member Leanid
Chukho, whether the commission sitting for distribution of the signature sheets
among the commission members had taken place. Leanid Aslanavich Chukho (Soviet
Army colonel, retired, nominated to the commission by the Belarusian Union of
Officers, a member of the campaign team of Aliaksandr Lukashenka) told him that
it hadn’t taken place and recommended not to hurry, because the signature
sheets were stored in a vault, and observers would be surely invited to the sitting.
Siarhei Housha reminded the commission member that he had submitted to the
commission a request for being informed about the time and place of the
verification of signature sheets, to which Mr. Chukho replied that the
committee would consider the application.
02.11.2010 Maladechna: district election commissions stages shows for observers
The Maladechna District Election Commission officially invites observers to its sittings, but when they come ahead of time the commission members get confused and refuse to let them in.
02.11.2010 Representatives of non-existent commissions keep walking in Svetlahorsk
The case
of the ‘representative’ of the precinct election commission, which was reported
earlier, is not the only one in Svetlahorsk (Homel region). The women who visit
people’s apartments and verify the lists of electors introduce themselves as
members of precinct election commissions. Meanwhile, the commission hasn’t been
formed yet.
02.11.2010 Central Election Commission rebukes lawbreakers, but without any legal consequences
The CEC
believes that making school teachers and kindergarten educators collect
signatures for nomination of presidential candidate Aliaksandr Lukashenka
during working hours is completely legal, even if they are not members of his
campaign team. This conclusion can be drawn from the response of the Chairperson
of the Central Commission Lidziya Yarmoshyna to the complaint of the human
rights defender Valiantsin Stefanovich concerning the discovery of ‘the
schedule of participation in the picket near the Serabranka market at 14 October 2010’ by journalists of the
European Radio for Belarus.
02.11.2010 Central Election Commission ‘lost’ signatures collected for Uladzimir Niakliayeu in Vitsebsk region
During a press conference the Central Election Commission stated that no signatures were collected in the Vitsebsk region for the nomination of Uladzimir Niakliayeu. The local activists refuted this by contacting the regional election commission. The Commission Chairman Viachaslau Krukovski confirmed that it had handed over 32,005 signatures. Nevertheless, the bug hasn’t been fixed at the CEC website.
02.11.2010 Vitsebsk: ex-pretender for president dismissed from work
Siarhei Ryzhou is dismissed from the position of the head of the foreign economic relations department of the fruit and vegetable combine Nouka. He states that he started receiving warnings about the dismissal after the registration of his campaign team, and his statement about withdrawal from the election on 21 October didn’t influence the situation.
02.11.2010 Babruisk: member of Belarusian Helsinki Committee files complaints to city authorities and Central Election Commission
The Babruisk member of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee Aliaksandr Leanenka filed a complaint to the CEC and the Babruisk City Executive Committee in connection with the refusal to let him observe the formation of election commissions in the Leninski district.
02.11.2010 Vitsebsk region: opposition parties nominate candidates for precinct commissions
According
to information of the Chairperson of the Vitsebsk regional organization of the
Belarusian Popular Front Party, Kanstantsin Smolikau, the party structure
delegated 24 representatives for work in the precinct election commissions of
Vitsebsk and 1 – in the town of Haradok.
02.11.2010 Brest region: members of political parties constitute only 2% of candidates for precinct election commissions
Almost a half of candidates for the precinct election commissions of the Brest region were nominated by collection of electors’ signatures, while political parties nominated just 2% of pretenders.
02.11.2010 Mahiliou: was there a real sitting for formation of precinct commissions in Leninski district?
This
question is asked not only by the human rights activist Aliaksei Kolchyn, but
by a number of democratic activists, who were nominated to the precinct
election commissions of Leninski district.
02.11.2010 Babruisk: observers aren’t admitted to sittings on formation of precinct election commissions
The Belarusian Helsinki Committee received an answer from the Leninski District Executive Committee of Babruisk to its request to admit observers to the sitting at which the precinct election commissions were formed.
