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Weekly Report – election campaigning

In their latest report Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections state that the election campaign took place in unequal conditions. By abandoning official campaigning, the incumbent made an extensive use of the administrative and propaganda resources of the power vertical, pro-government NGOs and the media. Moreover, the incentive measures taken on the initiative of the […]

Evaluation and recommendations on electoral reform ahead of parliamentary elections

Ahead of 2020 parliamentary elections election reform was one of the important issues discussed in parallel with the change of electoral system. The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) was actively involved in the working group on election reform and presented its joint recommendations with TI-Georgia. As a result of almost one-year long […]

Weekly Report – accreditation of observers and the start of early voting observation

On August 4, early voting in the presidential election was launched to continue until August 8. According to “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections”, most pro-government observers were registered immediately after the formation of the PECs in June. As a result, only observers from pro-government organisations and political parties will observe the election, administered by […]

An analog campaign in a digital age: Lukashenka falters in the face of social media

Image source: Belta.by President Lukashenko has tried to play down the upcoming election as an unnecessary distraction from business as usual, but an active social media movement has shown the public is no longer prepared to go along with an alternate reality, according to a new report analysing media and social media in the build-up […]

Political advertising on social media – who invests the most and what is in these ads?

The rhetoric of political content remains the same, criticizing opponents and praising their own initiatives, especially on the eve of elections. Politicians have actively used promotional services from Facebook in July. Mykola Tyshchenko, Volodymyr Hroisman, Petro Poroshenko, as well as the European Solidarity, Servant of the People, and Party of Sharii invested in political advertising […]

Television & Social Media Media Monitoring – Interim report

President Lukashenko has tried to play down the upcoming election as an unnecessary distraction from business, but an active social media movement has shown that the public is no longer prepared to go along with an alternate reality. Here you can read the findings of the interim report, produced by MEMO 98, EAST Center and […]

Statement on recently adopted changes to electoral legislation

Source: www.ukrinform.net Statement by Civil Network OPORA: On July, 16, 2020, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved in the second reading the draft law No 3485 on changes to electoral law. The decision that implies amendments to the Electoral Code, the Criminal Code and the Code on Administrative Offense, the laws on the CEC and the […]

“Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” demand transparency in voting and vote count

Image source: spring96.org On July 22, the Central Election Commission adopted a resolution amending Resolution No. 15 of May 8, 2020 “On the approval of the Regulations on the procedure for delegating and the activities of observers in the preparation and conduct of the 2020 presidential election in the Republic of Belarus”. The amendments introduced restrictions on […]

Representatives of Belarus’ biggest independent media outlets urge authorities to end persecution of journalists

Photo credit: Vadzim Zamirouski, TUT.BY   Belarusian Association of Journalists: Minsk, 21 July. As many as 213 representatives of Belarus’ biggest independent media outlets have urged the authorities to end the persecution of journalists. In their appeal, the journalists accuse the government of targeting media workers with tough repressive measures and note that 43 correspondents […]

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