Candidates from political parties of Belarus to the district election commissions constitute 18.8%
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9 July, Minsk /Svetlana Savko - BELTA/. Candidates nominated by political parties of Belarus for district election commissions constitute 18.8% of the total number of applicants. This was reported to BELTA correspondent by Nikolai Lozovik, Secretary of the Central Election Commission of Belarus, summing up the results of the next stage of preparation for the elections of deputies to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the fifth convocation.
At the same time, some political parties have shown quite high activity. For example, the "Fair World" party, in terms of the number of candidates nominated for district commissions, has almost matched the republican public association "Belaya Rus" and the Belarusian Republican Youth Union. These organizations have proposed 110 and 108 people for the commissions, respectively, or 5.2% and 5.1% of all applicants. "Fair World" - 88 people, or 4.1%, reported Nikolai Lozovik. "At this stage of the election campaign, they are competing on equal terms, although "Belaya Rus" and BRYU have hundreds of thousands of members, while the "Fair World" party is far less numerous," noted the Secretary of the Central Election Commission.
As for the other political parties and other public associations, the statistics are as follows:
The Belarusian Agrarian Party nominated 20 people, or 0.9% of the total number of candidates;
The Party of Greens - 5 people, or 0.2%;
The Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) - 6 people, or 0.3%;
The Belarusian Social Sports Party - 17 people, or 0.8%;
The KPB - 94 people, or 4.4%;
The Liberal Democratic Party - 9 people, or 0.4%;
The United Civil Party - 34 people, or 16%;
The Party "Belarusian Social Democratic Hramada" - 9 people, or 0.4%;
The BNF Party - 48 people, or 2.3%;
The Republican Party - 14 people, or 0.7%;
The Republican Party of Labour and Justice - 49 people, or 2.3%;
The Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord - 7 people, or 0.3%;
The Belarusian Public Association of Veterans nominated 98 people for district commissions, or 4.6% of the total number of applicants. The FPB - 279, or 13.1%, other public associations - 263 people, or 12.4%.
As informed by Nikolai Lozovik, out of all political parties registered in Belarus, only two did not participate in the nomination of candidates to district commissions - the Belarusian Patriotic Party and the Conservative Christian Party - BNF, led by Zenon Pazniak. "The Belarusian Women's Union also did not nominate its representatives. As far as I know, they did not manage to hold a meeting of their supreme governing body. It is possible that for the same reason, the Patriotic Party did not participate in the nomination of candidates to district commissions. As for Pazniak's party, they adhere to their established strategy - boycotting elections," said the Secretary of the Central Election Commission.
In total, 2127 people were nominated for the 110 districts to form the district election commissions. Of these, about 60% of the total number of candidates were nominated by political parties and other public associations. Citizens proposed about 30% of the candidates by submitting applications, and work collectives - 10.8%.
Today, the presidiums of regional, Minsk City Councils of Deputies, and regional, Minsk City Executive Committees will hold meetings to form the composition of district commissions. A total of 110 district commissions will operate in the parliamentary elections. This includes 20 in Minsk. There will be 17 commissions in Minsk and Gomel regions each, 16 in Brest region, 14 in Vitebsk region, and 13 district election commissions each in Mogilev and Grodno regions. -0-
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