Opposition candidates are not admitted to TV

Candidates, representing the authorities, are often showed on TV, while the opposition still have no access to the air.

Valyantina Kavalyova, an authorities’ candidate for the “house of representatives” in Svetlahorsk, was shown in TV, earlier, Lad TV channel showed a report about V. Kavalyova at the stage of collecting signatures. Democratic candidate Syarhei Daineka is ignored by the official media, the campaign “Human Rights Activists for Free Election” reports.

Valyantina Kavalyova, a member of the “house of representatives” since 2004, is carrying on propaganda campaign again. Just after a session of the district election commission, where V. Kavalyova was registered as a candidate for the new “election”, she went to a district teachers conference. Similar conferences are held annually, but an MP in the Presidium is a rare guest.

Most of members of polling stations election commissions are teachers. Speaking at the conference, head of the education department of the Svetlahorsk district executive committee Lyudmila Vyalichka paid attention to the fact that “a new school year will be a year of election for the “house of representatives””. Then V. Kavalyova went up to the rostrum to congratulate the attendants.

It was a ground to show V. Kavalyova in local news on Ranak TV on August 28. Attndents of the conference say V. Kavalyova was also taken pictures. So, a photo of V. Kavalyova will probably soon appear in local Rabak-Plus weekly. However, the official media have no grounds to show democratic candidate Syarhei Daineka.

According to the website of the Homel region executive commission, Ihar Kashlikau is a director of Ranak TV company. Deputy head of the district executive committee on ideology Syarhei Myarkulau, who is also a chairman of the district election commission, administered the Svetlahorsk media. This post was earlier occupied by V. Kavalyova, who also was a head of the district election commission and even got a medal for “elegant election”.