News on the topic: elections-2014
22.04.2014 Another former candidate fired
Former candidate in this year’s local elections Vital Kalinouski has been forced to resign from the Mikashevichy-based Narbud + private enterprise, where he had as a mechanic.
18.04.2014 Brest Regional Court dismisses UCP election complaint
The complaint dealt with a decision of the trial court that confirmed a ban on an election rally held in Brest on February 24 and said that the protesters violated the procedure of holding mass events.
16.04.2014 Lidziya Yarmoshyna dismisses the appeal of an opposition candidate for deputy
April 14, former candidate for the Mahiliou Regional Council in Khotsimsk constituency No. 54 and for the Khotsimsk District Council in Uzbiarezhnaya constituency No. 13 Valery Karankevich received a response from the Central Election Commission to his complaint.
16.04.2014 Alena Kavalenka fined 3 mln rubles
The Vitsebsk activist was fined for a rally against participation in municipal “elections” that took place on 22 March.
15.04.2014 Pressurization of civic activist in Mikashevichy
Former candidate from the campaign "Tell the Truth " in Mikashevichy and a member of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) Natallia Strazhevich can lose her job soon.
09.04.2014 Khotsimsk: constituency commission refuses to re-count ballots
Former candidate for the Mahiliou Regional Council of Deputies at Khotimsk constituency No. 54 and the candidate for the Khotsimsk District Council in Uzbiarezhnaya constituency No. 13 Valery Karankevich received a response from the constituency election commission to his complaint, in which he demanded a recount of the votes in three polling stations.
08.04.2014 Khotsimsk: civil society activist asks police to find slanderers
April 7, Valery Karankevich, a civil society activist from the urban settlement of Khotsimsk, applied to the Khotsimsk District Police Department.
07.04.2014 Brest: pressurization of the UCP candidates at the local elections continues
Iryna Siniapkina, who was nominated as a candidate of the United Civil Party, can be punished for an electoral picket held on February 24 in Brest.
07.04.2014 Mahiliou police drop administrative case concerning the beating of a candidate for deputy
The case was dismissed due to the absence of administrative offense. Such a response was received from the police by a former candidate for Mahiliou city and regional councils Aliaksei Paulouski.
04.04.2014 Former candidate complains to CEC over disregard of his complaints
Valery Karankevich, a former candidate for the Mahiliou Regional Council in Khotsimsk constituency No. 54 and a candidate for the Khotsimsk District Council in constituency No. 13, filed today a complaint to the Central Election Committee.
03.04.2014 Brest candidate seeks invalidation of election results
Valiantsina Maltsava, a resident of Brest who ran in the city’s constituency No. 3, has sent a complaint to the Brest Regional Election Commission. Earlier, she sent a similar statement to the City Election Commission, but the election officials refused to meet her demands.
02.04.2014 Another student gets expelled for civil society activism
Institute of Journalism of the Belarusian State University expelled another active student, member of the Movement "For Freedom" Mikita Semianenka. As stated by the Institute leadership, he was expelled for academic failure, as Mikita did not get a credit in one of the subjects.
02.04.2014 Alena Kavalenka to be tried for unauthorized picket
Alena Kavalenka, activist of the Conservative-Christian Party “Belarusian Popular Front”and wife of a former political prisoner Siarhei Kavalenka, took part in an electoral picket together with another CCP BPF activist, Yan Dziarzhautsau, on March 22. They stood there with a poster “Boycott the electoral farce!”
01.04.2014 Baranavichy: former candidate asks the court to punish Chair of the election commission
A former candidate for deputy Mikalai Charnavus has filed an appeal to the Brest Regional Court concerning the unlawful actions of Chairperson of the Western election constituency No. 21 Larysa Antonava.
31.03.2014 Aliaksandr Shchamliou: not a deputy anymore
Aliaksandr Shchamliou, a member of the Movement “For Freedom” in the Vitsebsk region, says he won the majority of votes in the elections to the Dabeya Village Council. This was written in the final minutes of vote count on 23 March. But five days later he saw another protocol, according to which he lost to his rival, head teacher of a school in the village of Ambrosavichy.
