Having successfully passed the registration of all 48 action teams that apply to the election commissions and intend to collect signatures of citizens in support of the nomination of its candidates in the candidates.

Of the 48 applicants to participate in the elections of 7 initiative groups formed by representatives of the Belarusian Popular Front Party, 5 – Belarusian Left Party "Fair World", 4 – the United Civil Party, 3 – the Liberal Democratic Party, one applicant in candidates represent the Belarusian Social Democratic Party ( Hramada) and the party "Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly".

The greatest number of initiative groups (7) registered in the Viciebsk-Chkalovsky №18 and №19 Viciebsk-Railway constituencies. The first "to the people" went supporters Tatiana Sevyarynets: two weeks ago near the shopping center "the Green" first picket to collect signatures in Viciebsk was organized. Then, the BCD pickets were held in different places of the city, including the area near the shop "Euroopt" in the neighborhood Bileva.

"As it turns out, not all of us know that the country started the election campaign, and now is collecting signatures for nomination of candidates. We tried to use the truck for the products to fix the BCD flag. To our surprise, the guards and the representative of the administration revolted not our the desire to "assign" the store property, namely a flag! it is called "forbidden", and demanded to remove, and generally we have got the impression that these people have not heard about the elections or of the pickets, which allows you to organize the electoral legislation " – Tatsyana Sevyarynets.

Indeed, if the pickets for collection of signatures in the Viciebsk region stood at every turn, and then misunderstandings of this kind would be less. But pickets have not yet become a mass phenomenon in the Viciebsk region. Human rights activists do not exclude that, as before, the administrative resource will be used for the collection of signatures for the "right" candidate. A street pickets primarily seek to carry out the candidates from the democratic forces – this is not only a means of collecting signatures, but also the opportunity to declare the existence of a specific organizational structure in an environment where official media and television essentially refused to cover the events, "the opposition of life".

according to spring96.org
Photo: S. Horki