the Mission of observers from the Commonwealth in the presidential elections in Belarus, scheduled for August 9, according to its leader Viktor Huminski, has already started work on July 24.
the representative of the mission after a meeting held Friday a meeting with the Chairman of the CEC Lidia Yermoshina in an interview with BelTA said that the first group of observers from the CIS due to the epidemiological situation will go to the regions next week, and will begin monitoring the campaign period. They are, in his words, mostly formed by employees of the CIS Executive Committee in the Belarusian capital, representatives of the embassies of the countries of the Commonwealth.
Recalling that the Executive Committee had already sent invitations to the CIS partners with the request to inform the candidates of their representatives, Huminski was given to understand that the process of formation of the mission continues. “We have already started to accept applications, in particular, from the State Duma of Russia, from the Milli Majlis, and the CEC of Azerbaijan,” he said.
According to him, from MPA of the Commonwealth will be at least 15 people, including MPs, staff of the Assembly of the International Institute of monitoring democracy development, parliamentarism and the electoral rights of citizens. However, from other States, he added, applications have not yet been reported, but, nevertheless, Huminski expressed the hope that “the mission will be generated in sufficient strength.” He recalled that his statement on the results of the monitoring campaign, the mission will need to voice the next day after the vote.
by the Way, by evaluating the start of the election campaign, the CEC Chairman Lidia Yermoshina informed the observers that she is this year “is fairly rapidly” and expressed concern that actions are being taken, “aimed at disrupting the work of election commissions”.
as an example, the head of the CEC referred to the initiative “about a parallel counting of votes through the Internet,” calling it a “violation of the constitutional principle, which specifies that elections are organized and conducted by election commissions”.
No other bodies, said Yermoshina, do not have the right “to exercise control over the will of the citizens, to reduce the results instead of the election commissions”. She described such actions as null and void, which “do not entail any legal consequences for the election campaign”.
