Presidential election 2015 in Belarus
Belarus president election’s exit polls recognized as compliant with world standards
MINSK, 11 October (BelTA) – The organization of exit polls as part of the Belarus president election complies with all the world standards. The statement was made by Christian Haerpfer, Doctor of Political Sciences, Director of the institute for comparative survey research Eurasia Barometer, on the air of the Belarusian TV channel ONT on 11 October, BelTA has learned.
Christian Haerpfer stressed: “My colleagues from the international team confirm that all the interviewers working at polling stations followed all the rules and instructions. This is why the quality of the exit polls matches global standards. Not a single violation of international rules has been registered.”
In his words, over 900 interviewers have worked at polling stations in Belarus. All of them had passed through a special selection and training process. “I can conclude that it was an objective scientific procedure. The interviewers never wavered from rules,” he concluded.
The institute for comparative survey research Eurasia Barometer has been conducting polls in Belarus since 1994. It is an international non-commercial non-governmental organization headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
The institute comprises research institutions and individual researchers in 25 countries. The sociologists focus on monitoring the public opinion with regard to political, social, and economic changes in countries of post-communist Europe and post-Soviet Eurasia. The geographical coverage includes Eastern Europe (Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria), the Balkans, Russia, Caucasia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan).
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