Sweepers were Forced to Tear off Leaflets of Opposition Candidates :: Charter'97 :: News

Ihar Shynkaryk, the Vice-Chairman of the United Civic Party, applied to the Partisan District Electorate Commission and Partisan District Public Prosecutor’s Office concerning violation of the suffrage by his rival at the Traktarabudaunichy electoral district #54.The Candidate to the Deputies of the Minsk City Council asks for checking the fact of distributing visual agitation aids of Mikhail Matusevich, the advisor for the Chairman of the State Control Committee, by the employees of the house management office # 64 during their official working hours.

“On 10th December the group of sweepers dressed in the uniform was moving around the settlement of tractor manufacturers sticking visual agitation aids of Mikhail Matusevich to the entrance doors of the neighboring blocks of flats, Ihar Shynkaryk said. During the conversation they confirmed that they worked for the house management office # 64 and were ordered by their management to stick the leaflets of the candidate of the state power and to tear off the leaflet of other candidates. Unfortunately, the uniformed employees refused to introduce themselves.

The United Civic Party candidate also added that a certain part of visual agitation aids of Mikhail Matusevich was distributed without publishers’ imprint and circulation. Samples of that printed matter were forwarded by Ihar Shynkaryk to the electorate commission. Moreover, he insists on investigating the actual circulation of visual agitation aids of his rival. According to Ihar Shynkaryk, the cost of full-color visual agitation aids of the former Deputy Chairman of the State Control Committee considerably exceeds 8 base rates provided by the State.

Such conclusion was made by the United Civic Party candidate on the basis of calculation of the costs of three kinds of Mikhail Matskevich’s visual printed matter being distributed around the Traktorozavodskoy electoratedistrict #54. Ihar Shynkaryk enclosed his arithmetic calculations along with the samples of Mikhail Matusevich’s leaflets to his application.

According to Ihar Shynkaryk’s report to the press-service of the United Civic Party, his leaflets were being torn off the billboards.