Human rights activists to give estimate to election campaign

The republican human rights association “Belarusian Helsinki Committee” is set to carry out monitoring of elections to the “chamber of representatives of the national assembly”.

It has been stated at the press-conference in Minsk on June 12.

In fact, we have already started the monitoring of the situation before the elections,” the chairman of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee Aleh Hulak said. “It is important for us not only to follow the observation of elections laws and international standards, but to try to analyze the dynamics of carrying out elections in Belarus”.

The Vice President of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) Ales Byalatski (Aliaksandr Bialiatski) in his turn has informed that Belarusian human rights watchdogs won’t hold large-scale observation on the ballot day. “We are proceeding from the fact that on the polling day the result of the elections will be made already, that is why the stages of the election campaign before the ballot day are to play a more important role,” Byalatski noted.

As said by him, Belarusian human rights watchdogs plan to carry out monitoring in 100 electoral districts. In each of them three persons will monitor the situation. When carrying out the monitoring, the BHC plans to cooperate with Belarusian human rights activists outside their organisation.

A. Hulak has confirmed that the monitoring won’t be held “in favor of some political forces”. “We attempt to analyze the elections campaign objectively,” he stated.