Unregistered candidate receives threats to plant drugs on him

Businessman Alyaksandr Solap was denied registration as a parliamentary candidate and received information that police prepares an operation against him.

We remind that on August 29, the CEC dismissed a complaint by Alyaksandr Solap, an underestimated candidate in Slutsk constituency No. 67. In the absence of legal grounds to deny registration to him, the Central Election Commission took this decision on “moral and ethic grounds”, Viasna human rights centre reports.

CEC secretary Mikalai Lazavik said to journalists he received letters every days asking “not to register Solap because he is a criminal”.

Lazavik's proposal to uphold the decision of the constituency commission was supported by nine persons. Only Lidzia Yarmoshyna voted against.

Alyaksandr Solap plans to appeal against this decision to the Supreme Court.

Some hours after the CEC meeting, a stranger came to Alyaksandr Solap and his wife in a park near the KGB building in Minsk. The man introduced himself as a “well-wisher” and said he had information about a police operation against Alyaksandr. Alayksandr Solap will be detained in his car and drugs or weapons will be found in the car, the man promised.

“I don't know what I should do,” Alyaksandr Solap is puzzled. “Do they make me go underground?”