CEC Openly Supports Alexander Lukashenko, Treats Goncharik with Bias :: Charter'97 :: News

Candidate for the presidency Vladimir Goncharik believes that CEC doesn’t treat him fairly. He said this on September 4 during the Gomel press-conference. According to Goncharik, CEC persistently ignores all facts of violations of electoral legislation, committed by Alexander Lukashenko’s crew. Goncharik asks a rhetorical question: who paid for the bus trip to Minsk of 300 representatives of Gomel region, where they met with Lukashenko. The leader of free trade unions claims that CEC will overlook the issue anyway.

In light of the September 4 meeting between the incumbent and the voters Vladimir Goncharik stated that given the Belarusian television will shoot a report from there, his pre-election office would demand same coverage too.

Goncharik deems that despite the flagrant law infringements by Lukashenko, his candidacy’s withdrawal is very unlikely for both CEC and the procuracy openly uphold the acting president. As a proof of that FTU leader cited the words of the CEC chairwoman Lidya Ermoshina, who said that Lukashenko’s failure to win the ballot would be a personal tragedy for her. This statement, says Goncharik, should mean the end of her career as CEC chairperson. According to him, in any other country of the globe the incumbent, who runs for the second tenure and says that he will never give up the power, would be held answerable before the state procuracy right away. Not so at all with Belarus, though.