Belarus parliament elections

More than four candidates running for one seat in Belarusian parliament
Lidia Yermoshina noted that 445 teams of prospective candidates are now collecting signatures. She also informed that CEC finished a series of seminars for chairpersons and secretaries of territorial and district election commissions, heads of local executive and administrative bodies, and personnel management departments and divisions...

Foreign media invited to apply for accreditation for Belarus parliament elections by 4 September
The list of documents the accreditation process requires is available in the “Press Service / Accreditation” section of the website of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The list of documents matches the temporary accreditation list of documents...

Nomination of candidates to Belarus’ upper house to begin 21 July
According to the schedule of the campaign to the upper house of Parliament, the nomination of candidates to the Council of the Republic will run through 19 August...

CEC gives final instructions to parliamentary election organizers
CEC Chairperson Lidia Yermoshina held seminars in Gomel Oblast, Minsk Oblast, Mogilev Oblast and Minsk. CEC Secretary Nikolai Lozovik delivered seminars in Brest Oblast, Vitebsk Oblast, and Grodno Oblast...

Number of CIS observers for parliamentary elections in Belarus up to 44
The CIS mission has started monitoring the election campaign in Belarus The Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee, head of the CIS observation mission Sergei Lebedev said earlier...

240 national observers accredited for parliamentary elections 2016 in Belarus
21 observers represent political parties, 204 - public associations. In particular, the CEC accredited 42 observers from Belaya Rus association, 33 representatives of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union, 46 observers from the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, and 23 from the Federation of trade unions of Belarus...

Parliamentary election campaign in Belarus off to an active start
“We already have 4.5 candidates per seat at this preliminary nomination stage. However, I think that the number of initiative groups will decrease as more candidates are nominated by political parties"...

Lebedev: Parliamentary election campaign in Belarus well-organized, in compliance with laws
The Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee noted that the CIS mission has started monitoring the election campaign in Belarus. As many as 25 long-term observers have already been accredited. These are diplomats and representatives of the CIS Executive Committee...

446 initiative groups registered ahead of parliamentary elections in Belarus
A total of 479 applications to register initiative groups were filed with district election commissions. The applications were closed on 7 July. The district election commissions review the applications within five days since the documents are filed...

6,018 polling stations set up in Belarus and abroad ahead of parliamentary elections
As many as 47 polling stations will be operating abroad. Belarusians living in the regions will be able to cast their vote at 5,971 ballot stations, with 259 of them set up at health and recreation centers, hospitals and other healthcare institutions providing in-patient medical services...