Presidential election 2015 in Belarus

Lidia Yermoshina noted that this year there will be fewer foreign observers than in 2010 because a week before the Belarus President election there will be parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, and a week later the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan. "Therefore observers will be divided into different missions. But if we talk about the numbers, I think it will be 400 people on each side (the OSCE and the CIS – note by BelTA). We can talk about 800 observers. This is a lot. But in the 2010 election year we had over a thousand of international observers,” she said.

Lidia Yermoshina reminded that the CIS mission has already begun its work. The OSCE mission will be deployed on 26 August. Currently we are receiving applications for accreditation from them, she noted.

"The membership of the long-term missions will not change. They will remain the same," the CEC head said. According to her, the CEC expects that the applications from short-term observers will start coming soon. These observers will arrive in Belarus on the eve of the election, or for early voting, and will monitor the political situation, the conduct of the election campaign in the country.

Speaking of national observers, Lidia Yermoshina noted that a week ago there were more than 500 of them. "Now the election commissions are being formed, and the number of national observers will increase dramatically," Lidia Yermoshina said.