Belarus parliament elections

MINSK, 12 July (BelTA) – Belarus’ district election commissions have registered 446 initiative groups to collect signatures in support of prospective candidates to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the six convocation, reads a statement posted on the website of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus, BelTA has learned.

A total of 479 applications to register initiative groups were filed with district election commissions. The applications were closed on 7 July. The district election commissions review the applications within five days since the documents are filed.

According to the latest data, the majority of applications were filed in Minsk – 114. Least of all was submitted in Vitebsk Oblast – 48.

Among the candidates, whose initiative groups were registered, 286 are people with non-party affiliation and 160 are party members. Of them 39 represent the United Civil Party, 29 - the Belarusian Popular Fund, 23 - the Belarusian left party A Just World, 21 - the Communist Party of Belarus, 16 - the Liberal Democratic Party, 16 - the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada), 10 - the Republican Party of Labor and Justice, three – the Belarusian Green Party, three – the Belarusian Patriotic Party, and one represents the Belarusian Social and Democratic Hramada Party.