Belarus parliament elections

Election programs of Belarusian candidates sent to mass media
Belarus’ CEC released a mass media guide for candidates and their programs. This is a novel concept of this year’s election campaign. The CEC website has a special section with the information on every program sent to newspapers. This is done to avoid double publication...

Andreichenko hopes for objective assessment of parliamentary elections
“The elections to the House of Representatives is a very important political event both for the state and the Belarusian society. We have already done a lot and will do our best for the open, transparent and democratic elections so that they could demonstrate the will of the Belarusian people"...

Over 4,100 domestic observers to monitor elections to Belarusian parliament
In particular, 268 observers have been nominated and accredited by submitting applications from citizens, 225 observers have been nominated by labor collectives, and 551 ones by political parties. Other public associations have managed to get 3,118 people accredited as observers. The most active ones are the Belarusian Republican Youth Union (874)...

Election observers from PACE, OSCE PA accredited in Belarus
The CEC has accredited 7 observers from the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) and 2 from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA)...

CIS mission suggests developing common election assessment approaches
"The CIS election observation mission was deployed to Belarus more than a month ago. Its members have already visited every oblast of the country. The CIS mission includes 44 long-term observers representing almost every CIS member state," Sergei Lebedev said...

Yermoshina lists cases when potential candidates may be denied registration
Reasons to deny registration include violation of laws by the initiative group during the nomination phase (if the group received any official warnings); unreliable information on income and property of the candidate or non-presentation of the income and property declaration...

Lukashenko: The election campaign in Belarus proceeds calmly
“The election campaign proceeds calmly. The candidates have been nominated, they are being registered now. The fact that more than six people intend to fight for one parliamentary seat is a good indicator, I am very glad it is so. It means that there will be competition”...

630 candidates standing in parliamentary election in Belarus
CEC head Lidia Yermoshina noted that she is happy with the figure of 630 people because it is 130 people more than four years ago...

Belarus’ CEC to release mass media guide for parliamentary candidates
Speaking about appearances on radio and television, the official said that a parliamentary candidate can get five minutes of free air time on television, five free minutes on radio, and can participate in televised debates...

Belarus’ 2016 elections info center to operate at Minsk Palace of Republic on 11 September
The information center will host Video conferences with election commissions, press conferences with the participation of political scientists, international foreign observers, electoral law specialists. The information center will also host other events directly related to the election campaign...