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Election law violations are corrected after four years

In the election campaign Gorodok District Council 27 convocation corrected the violation of electoral legislation on the formation of electoral districts, with district council deputies who lived for almost four years . During the previous campaign in 2010 in Gorodok district council was formed 18 counties in the number of dimensions which voters violated the Election Code of the Republic of Belarus.

In Part 6, Article 15 states that "the electoral districts are formed with an approximately equal number of voters : deviation of the number of voters in the constituency ... the election of deputies of the respective local council of deputies from the average number of voters per constituency falling at the local Council of Deputies , as generally can not exceed 10 percent. "

Number of voters in the territory Gorodok District then was about 20,276 voters. Gorodok district council elections for the Board of Deputies Gorodoksky 26th convocation was determined number of constituencies - 31 , while the average number of voters in the district was 654 citizen. Thus, in accordance with the requirements of Part 6 of Article 15 of the Electoral Code, the number of voters in the district was to be from 588 to 721 voters voter.

Then Gorodokskaya District Commission proposal Gorodok Executive Committee formed 31 constituency the number of voters in them from 420 to 842. Deviations of more than 10 % of the average number of voters were in 18 (!) Constituencies. It got to the violation of the constitutional principle of equality of voters in the electoral law , when 841 voters Voyhanskogo village council ( parishes and Prudnitsky Voyhansky ) elected two deputies Gorodok District Council and District 842 voter Kabischenskogo only one deputy .

This violation of the law gave Leonid Gorovoj activist movement "For Freedom " and demanded remedy the breach in Gorodok prosecutor's office, and in the Vitebsk Regional Commission . But the chairman of the Central Election Commission Lydia Yermoshina recognized violation of the law in the formation of districts in Gorodok district council . Incidentally, similar violations of human rights defenders have been recorded in most other regions of the Vitebsk region.

Four years later, the violation Gorodoksky staff executive committee, which offers a number of voters in the constituencies for elections to the district council , corrected. At this time in Gorodok district is District 31 , which recorded 18,906 voters. When the average composition of 610 voters in the district or a district does not deviate from this amount by more than 10 %.

In the list of counties Township added a new district - Novostroitelny neighborhood of new homes on the street. Komsomolskaya about raybolnitsy . Military unit finally attributed to the territory Veremeevskomu district. A number of counties combined territories of various village councils Palminsky area combines both the village the village council , and part agrotown Palminki and Stadalischenskogo village and village councils Voyhanskogo ; Varhovsky district includes part of the village council Virovlyansky ; Dubrovsky - Mezhenskogo part of the village council , etc.

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