BPF and "For Freedom" activsts not allowed to be deputies

None of the candidates from the Belarsuian Popular Front party and "For Freedom" movement has become a deputy.

It has been stated at a press-conference in Minsk by the leader of the Belarusian Popular Front party Alyaksei Yanukevich and "For Freedom" movement leader Alyaksandr Milinkevich, BelaPAN informs.

"According to the preliminary information, none of the BPF candidates has become a local council deputy," Yanukevich said. As a candidate in Haladzed precinct number 6 of Minsk he himself won 15% of votes.

Yanukevich stated that the election was accompanied by mass violations. "For instance, in Slonim Ivan Sheha, a BPF candidate, won both according to the results of calculation of permanent-type ballot boxes results and voting at home. It happened thanks to the fact that his observer was accompanying the commission members with the ballot box while they were visiting houses. But the results of the early voting were: 46 votes for Sheha, 210 for his contender. This gap gave the victory to his rival," said the BPF leader.

As said by him, a member of the election commission in the precinct number 9, a member of the BPF refused to sign the protocol with the results of the voting because of obvious violations. "Today there will be a session of the district election commission, and we also have our representative there, and he also plans to refuse to sign the protocol," Yanukevich said.

The leader of "For Freedom" movement Alyaksandr Milinkevich has also underlined that during the voting gross violations of electoral law were recorded. "I can give just one example. In the existing scheme of rigging election results, there is even no need to exchange voting ballots. Yesterday I was told a story of a human rights activist Khrystafor Zhalyapau from Vitsebsk. A candidate from "For Freedom" movement Raisa Zarachanskaya was running in Pershamajski district there. As usual, members of the commission sit down to count votes, pass the sheets of paper with the results of calculation to the chairman of the commission in silence, like during a funeral. He takes these sheets of paper to the secretary of the commission in silence. The secretary of the commission with a calculator pretends he is calculating something. Then they go to a separate room, go out with a protocol and announce the results. And there were cases when members of a commission go back home after the work finished without signing the final protocol of the election results," said the leader of "For Freedom" movement.

"There is a million of falsifcations," Milinkevich said. "But the regime signes to itself a death warrant, as people understand perfectly well what is happening, and they feel that the gap between them and the regime is growing".