Report on monitoring the phase of election campaigning
The citizen observers inititive Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections claims that this year’s election is marked by a greater number of locations for campaigning events, a lack of information in the government-owned media candidates from the opposition, the use of administrative resources in favor of pro-government candidates. This created unequal conditions for other candidates. […]
Local elections in Belarus: recent reports
Photo: Yelena Masliukova Local elections in Belarus took place on February 18, 2018. Within the campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections”, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Center “Viasna” have published several in depth-reports analysing assessing the election’s compliance with the standards of free democratic elections. According to the […]
Report on monitoring the registration of candidates for deputies
A total of 22,713 candidates for local councils of the twenty-eighth convocation have been nominated, which almost equals the number nominated during the last local elections of 2014 (22,784). Most candidates were nominated by citizens through signature collection — 15,172, which represents 66.8% of the total number of nominees, labor collectives — 5,356 (23.6%), political […]
Local elections in Belarus: Report on monitoring the registration of candidates for deputies
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY – according to the CEC2, 17,542 nomination groups were registered, which is 99.9% of the total number of nominations. In the previous local elections of 2014, the registration percentage was 99.7%; – the election commissions did not create significant obstacles to the registration of nomination groups, with almost all groups having been registered. […]
Report on monitoring the formation of precinct election commissions
The precinct election commissions (hereinafter —PECs) are the key actor of the election process. It is the PECs that directly organize and conduct early voting, voting on Election Day, and home voting, counting of the votes and tabulation at the polling stations. As in the previous local elections, one of the essential legally – enshrined […]
Local elections in Belarus: Report on monitoring the formation of precinct election commissions
In the framework of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections”, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Center “Viasna” have published a number of reports around the Belarusian local elections, to be held on February 18, 2018. The precinct election commissions (hereinafter —PECs) are the key actor of the election process. […]
Report on the results of monitoring the registration of nomination groups
According to the observers, the registration of nomination groups was marked by several flaws, e.g. in the Orša district commission. The commission registered a nomination group of Sviataslau Chernikau, head of the Radunskaje agricultural enterprise, who specified his party affiliation as the “Belaya Rus party”. After observers of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders For Free […]
Local elections in Belarus: Report on the results of monitoring the registration of nomination groups
In the framework of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections”, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Center “Viasna” have published a number of reports around the Belarusian local elections, to be held on February 18, 2018. According to observers, the registration of nomination groups was marked by several flaws, e.g. […]
Monitoring report on the formation of district election commissions
Executive officials still demonstrated an obviously discriminatory approach to the opposition parties during the formation of the District Election Commissions (DECs). The introduction of a requirement to consider the candidates’ professional and personal qualities did not contribute to greater political pluralism. The process of formation of the DECs took place in an atmosphere of greater […]
Local elections in Belarus: Monitoring report on the formation of district election commissions
In the framework of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections”, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Center “Viasna” have published a number of reports around the Belarusian local elections, to be held on February 18, 2018. On of the findings of the report on District Election Commissions (DECs) is that […]