Presidential election 2015 in Belarus

Belarus CEC receives documents from five presidential candidates
The documents to be registered as presidential candidates have been submitted by Tatiana Korotkevich, Sergei Gaidukevich, Nikolai Ulakhovich and incumbent President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. The documents were also submitted by Viktor Tereshchenko, who failed to collect the necessary 100,000 valid signatures...

PACE delegation to arrive in Belarus on 8 September
Earlier, head of Belarus’ Central Election Commission Lidia Yermoshina said that she had a meeting with PACE rapporteur on Belarus Andrea Rigoni scheduled for 9 September...

Presidential candidates’ incomes to be published after official registration
According to Lidia Yermoshina, the CEC will use the help of the corresponding bodies that register citizens’ property and have information on citizens’ income...

142 international observers registered with Belarus’ CEC
The figure changes every day since registration forms and reports about more international observers willing to monitor the election are submitted to Belarus’ CEC every day...

CIS election observers, Belarus’ Supreme Court agree on cooperation terms
Top officials of the CIS observation mission and the Supreme Court met in Minsk on 3 September as part of the election monitoring process...

OSCE/ODIHR deploys long-term observation mission in Belarus
The mission is led by French diplomat Jacques Faure and consists of a core team of 11 experts (representing 10 countries) based in Minsk and 36 long-term observers (from 16 countries) to be deployed in teams of two across the country...

Preliminary data about true signatures to nominate candidates for Belarus presidency released
The CEC intends to register candidates for the Belarus presidency on 10 September to allow full-fledged pre-election campaigning as from 11 September...

Gaidukevich: Failed candidates demonstrate incompetence by criticizing opponents
“One needs to know how to acknowledge mistakes,” the politician said. In his words, today one must not grumble that the signature collection stage is undemocratic...

More CIS observers for Belarus president election by 10 September
“As of 27 August, 45 CIS observers got accredited for monitoring the election. As many as 28 of them are working on a long-term basis,” the mission said...

Over 620 observers accredited at territorial election commissions in Belarus
Most observers, namely 494 persons, were sent by public associations. The Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus (FTUB) sent 113 people...