Central Election Committee: No more live TV for the opposition

The Belarusian Central Election Committee (CEC) finds a live TV-debate for deputy candidates unreasonable.

“We have already done live debates (for the presidential candidates in 2010 – Interfax). There was hardly anything good about it. We hope that the debates of the “parliamentary election” will be polite and decent, but we will not show it live,” the CEC secretary Mikalay Lazovik told Interfax-West on Thursday.

He pointed out that “a debate of the candidates to the “chamber of representatives” is a new thing for us.” “We haven’t had TV-debates for “parliament” deputy candidates; only for presidential candidates,” Lazovik emphasized.

“We believe that the debate should be broadcast at the prime time, just like the pre-election speeches,” the CEC secretary remarked.

We remind that during the presidential election campaign of 2010, the TV-debates of the presidential candidates were broadcast live. Almost every candidate called upon voters to come to the square in case the election results would be falsified.