Belarus parliament elections

Belarus-Russia Union State MPs to monitor elections in Belarus
The delegation will be led by Leonid Slutsky, a member of the Parliamentary Assembly commission for information policy, Chairman of the State Duma committee for the CIS countries, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots...

Dozens of foreign media eager to cover parliamentary elections in Belarus
“As of today we have received 59 applications for accreditation from such major mass media as the Russian news agency TASS, the Chinese television and radio company CCTV, Al Jazeera from Qatar, and a number of major European media”...

Belarus MFA provides assistance to election commissions abroad
The Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs provides all the necessary assistance to the election commissions located abroad, spokesman for the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dmitry Mironchik told a briefing on 1 September...

Chief CIS observer notes high readiness of polling stations for parliamentary elections in Belarus
Sergei Lebedev specified that at this stage of the election campaign the CIS observers pay attention primarily to the readiness of district election commissions and the readiness of polling station election commissions to welcome voters because early voting will begin on 6 September...

Number of candidates to Belarus' House of Representatives down to 495
Currently, 315 candidates to the Parliament are party-nominated (63.5% of the total number). 115 are women, 52 are under 30, 28 people are members of the current House of Representatives, 35 are deputies of local councils of deputies...

Buzovsky calls for wider use of local mass media in election campaign
According to Igor Buzovsky, candidates to the Belarusian Parliament should make a wider use of the information resources in their election campaign in order to achieve higher popularity with the people of his constituency...

Lebedev: Election campaign in Belarus is calm
"We see that candidates are provided with the opportunity to speak on the radio in the morning and make televised statements in the evening. Unfortunately, not everyone makes the full use of these opportunities"...

Lukashenko wants true professionals in Parliament whatever their political views
“I would like true professionals to be elected to the Belarusian parliament. It does not matter what political views they hold. Believe me, the Parliament should consist of people who can work and who can draft laws,” Alexander Lukashenko stressed...

Lebedev: Belarus parliament elections on schedule, in compliance with law
"A total of 328 observers have been accredited as of today. However, these are mostly shot-term observers who will arrive in Belarus shortly before the election day. As many as 44 long-term observers have been working in Belarus for almost a month already,” Sergei Lebedev noted...

Lukashenko: Elections should not destabilize the situation in the country
“There are many well-wishers who advise us a lot. We are good students. It is never too late to learn. But we will be guided by the interests of the Belarusian people, and we will do everything to comply with the basic democratic criteria for such elections,” the head of state noted...