BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

15/09/2008

56 contenders nominated for deputies of Belarus' Council of Republic

Some 56 candidates were nominated for the deputies of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus of the fourth convocation. The candidates will be registered at a session of the Central Election Commission on September 18, BelTA learnt from Nikolai Lozovik, Secretary of the Central Election Commission (CEC).

In his words, checking of the documents and the order of the nomination is underway in the CEC. Nikolai Lozovik reminded that the Council of the Republic consists of 64 parliamentarians, with eight of them appointed by the president of Belarus. Seven regions elect eight people each to fill in the rest of the seats. The candidates are nominated by the presidiums of the regional and town councils of deputies and regional town executive committees, presidiums of the Minsk city council of deputies and Minsk city council. The Belarusian citizens over 30 who have lived in the corresponding oblast, the city of Minsk for at least five years are eligible to be candidates for members of the Council of the Republic.

Among the candidates for the members of the upper chamber of the parliament are 19 women, 13 state officials, 22 heads of different organizations, three rectors of the higher educational establishments, 15 people who were the members of the Council of the Republic.

Among the potential candidates is Chairman of the National Assembly of Belarus Gennady Novitsky, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Belarusbank Nadezhda Yermakova, First Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Belarus Anatoly Rubinov, Chairman of the House of Representatives Vadim Popov.

Sessions of the local councils of deputies that are supposed to elect 56 members of the Council of the Republic will take place on September 21 - October 10.

The deadline for appointing the election date is October 14, 2008.

Source:

http://news.trendaz.com/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1294766&lang=EN

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