News on the topic: presidential elections-2010
02.12.2010 Homel region: state press knows ‘ideologically correct answers’
The independent electronic media published information that the ideological department of the Homel Region Executive Committee sent to the editorial boards of the local state-owned newspapers a letter with the proposal to hold a poll among the local dwellers concerning the upcoming election. The letter offered the newspapers not only questions, but also ideologically correct answers to them.
02.12.2010 Chairperson of Homel Region Executive Committee advises students to ‘elect the one you know well’
Aliaksandr Yakabson, the Chairperson of the Homel Region Executive Committee, a proxy of the candidate for President Aliaksandr Lukashenka, delivered a speech before students of the Mazyr Pedagogical University.
02.12.2010 Barysau: state-owned press keeps silence about democratic candidates or mocks at them
The printed issues of the mouthpiece of the Barysau District Executive Committee Adzinstva for 1 December 2010 says nothing about oppositional candidates for president. However, the electronic version of the newspaper offers to readers mocking reports about the electoral meetings of Yaraslau Ramanchuk and Andrei Sannikau.
02.12.2010 Salihorsk: ideological work of vertical intensified
The ideological activities of the Salihorsk authorities have become far more intense during the last weeks.
02.12.2010 Lelchytsy: Svetlaye Zhyttsio agitates for Lukashenka
The state-owned socio-political newspaper Svetlaye Zhyttsio started promoting the incumbent President. The agitation is carried out on behalf of his most reliable electors – pensioners. The 27 July issue of the newspaper contains the article To Make The Right Choice by a former teacher Valiantsina Siutsiukava.
02.12.2010 Pavel Seviarynets was met with provocative questions
Pavel Seviarynets, the head of the electoral headquarters and a proxy of the presidential candidate Vital Rymasheuski, holds electoral meetings in the Vitsebsk region. On 1 December he had such meetings in Hlybokaye, Pastavy and Miyory. Two meetings passed quite calmly, but the Pastavy officials tried to disrupt the meeting in the Pastavy House of Culture.
01.12.2010 Election-related detentions
The human rights activist Leanid Sudalenka was detained at Kamenny Loh border crossing point on his way from Lithuania with 10 copies of instructions for observes on him.
01.12.2010 Authorities are forming army of ‘pocket observers’
The heads of the precinct election commissions received the errand to form brigades of observers. The latter ones are instructed how to counteract ‘curious’ journalists and observers during the count of the poll, neutralize the personal opinions entered by observers and witness another ‘elegant victory’. The observer of the NGO BPF Adradzhenne saw it all at the training seminar for the heads of the precinct election commissions of the Maskouski district of Minsk on 30 November.
01.12.2010 Babruisk: state-owned mass media agitate for Lukashenka
The state-owned mass media of Babruisk are keeping to the tactic of silence during the present electoral campaign and publish only general information on elections. The only exception is the mouthpiece of the Babruisk Town Executive Committee Babruiskaye Zhyttsio, which dedicatedly promotes just one candidate, the incumbent Lukashenka.
01.12.2010 Homelskaya Prauda publishes only ‘ideologically correct’ opinions about opposition’s candidates
What are your feelings about the speeches of the presidential candidates? – an article with such a title was published in the front page of the newspaper issue for 30 November. Meanwhile, the incumbent Aliaksandr Lukashenka refused to deliver and electoral speech. Hence, the article concerns only other candidates.
01.12.2010 Pinsk: places of work of members of electoral commissions are top state secret
The places of work of some members of election commissions are still a secret even for themselves. For instance, the representative of the Belarusian Popular Front Aliaksandr Ramanovich, a member of the Pinsk precinct election commission #26 tried to find about the places of work of other members of the commission in order to check the legality of the formation of the commission (according to the law, the share of state officials in an election commission cannot exceed 1/3 of the total number of members). However, the commission chairperson refused to answer this question.
01.12.2010 Vitsebsk: does only Lukashenka’s electoral program deserve front pages?
The state-owned newspaper Vitsebski Rabochy seems to know nothing about the fact that all presidential candidates must have equal conditions for canvassing.
01.12.2010 Slonim: ideologists ban TV broadcast of meeting with Seviarynets
Information about the electoral meeting with Pavel Seviarynets, a proxy of the presidential candidate Vital Rymasheuski, that took place on 25 November was spread only by the private socio-political weekly Hazeta Sloninskaya.
01.12.2010 Babruisk: prison cells reserved for oppositionists?
A resident of Babruisk (name withheld) told human rights defenders about an interesting occurrence.
01.12.2010 Election: yesterday’s associations
Central Election Commission issued warnings to the presidential candidates Vital Rymasheuski and Mikalai Statkevich for the unauthorized action in Kastrychnitskaya Square in the center of Minsk.
