Final report
The elections were very passive and hardly visible to the public. Despite the absence of any significant violations and obstacles at the electoral phases of registration of nomination groups, collecting of signatures and election campaigning, the stages that followed, including early voting, counting of the votes and the tabulation of voting results in higher commissions, […]
Local elections in Belarus: Final report
FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS Elections of deputies of local councils of the 28th convocation, which began on November 14, 2017, took place against the background of an overall deterioration of the political situation in the country compared to the previous period of ‘soft practices’ lasting between August 2015 and February 2017. The period ended with a […]
Electoral system of Belarus requires urgent reanimation
Photo: Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections Elections to the local councils did not meet a number of key international standards for democratic and free elections, coordinators of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” said at a press conference on February 19 in Minsk. One of the two coordinators, a representative of […]
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 […]
Local elections in Belarus: Report on monitoring the phase of election campaigning
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In comparison with the previous elections of local councils of deputies, this year’s elections are marked by a greater number of locations for campaigning events, meetings with voters and posting campaign materials. These venues are also more convenient. When making decisions about campaigning locations, local government s were increasingly guided by the principle […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
