Political Parties’ Members Ignored Countrywide :: Charter'97 :: News

The formation of the district electoral commissions ended on January 15, but it took the Central Electoral Commission quite a while to draw the conclusions and calculate the statistics. They explained the delay by huge volumes of work to be done. Throughout the country there have been formed 6,681 commissions, which encompass 72,328 people. In light of this figure, the number of political parties’ members – 162 – simply gets lost. Active politicians are overlooked practically everywhere.

According to Radio Ratsya, the district commission will include as many communists as all other political parties’ members combined – 81 persons (out of the total 162). The leader is the pro-presidential Communist party of Belarus.

According to the CEC secretary Nikolai Lozovik, communists are followed by the Agrarian Party (30 members) and the Party of communists of Belarus – 29. Next to come is the United Civil Party – 21. Of all BPF members only one person got elected. The district commissions won’t have in their composition representatives of the Liberal-Democratic Party, nor members of the Belarusian Social-Democratic Party “Narodnaya Gromada”.