BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

24/06/2008

Belarus starts election race to elect new parliament

MINSK, June 24 (Itar-Tass) - Belarus starts on Tuesday an election campaign to elect deputies to the new legislature. Election Day is fixed on September 28. “The president received a package of appropriate documents. It was established that the campaign to elect the House of Representatives and the Council of the Republic upper chamber starts on June 24,” chairman of the Central Election Commission and on holding a republican referendum Lidia Yermoshina told reporters.

Last Friday, she discussed questions on holding the election race with President Alexander Lukashenko. According to the CEC chairwoman, the head of state emphasised that the elections should pass democratically and quite transparently. National and international observers should have the full volume of information on preparing the election race and processes, taking place directly at polling stations and election commissions on Election Day.

The chairwoman already had a meeting with representatives of the technical mission of the OSCE ODIHR, who were in Minsk on June 9-11 to study conditions for their participation in monitoring the parliamentary elections. Yermoshina said by the results of the meeting that it is expedient to welcome around 700 international observers from the OSCE to monitor the elections.

Source:

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12805088&PageNum=0

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