Voting on Vitsebsk rural district № 21 is without a candidate from the BPF Leonid Avtuhov. This decision was made at the second session of the Extraordinary Congress XV BPF and confirmed candidate Leonid Avtuhov September 17.
September 17 Mr. Avtukhov appealed to the County Commission of the Vitebsk rural district № 21, a statement of withdrawal from the election campaign in the House of Representatives of the fifth convocation.
A statement of the candidate noted that the conditions of participation of the candidate during the election was the release of political prisoners and the inclusion of the election commission of representatives of democratic candidates. Regime But these conditions are not met.
Continue to be imprisoned 15 political prisoners, including presidential candidate Nikolai Statkevich, leader of the "Young Front" Zmitser Dashkevich, which in closed court added one year of imprisonment, Ales Bialiatski, human rights activist, a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, entrepreneur Autukhovich, Pavel Sevyarynets and others. Also, only 13 representatives (5%) of the 233 nominated by the party BNF included in election commissions - though of pro-government organizations and parties included 80-95% of nominated. This does not give hope that the voices of will be true.
Candidate's proclamation
Freedom for political prisoners, and the voices - take together!
Dear citizens, friends!
Our BNF conditioned the participation in the election campaign in 2012 by two conditions: the release and rehabilitation of political prisoners, as well as joint counting by including our representatives in election commissions.
The fulfillment of these conditions is the benefit of the Belarusian people, but officials regime perceive these terms as a threat to their uncontrolled domination.
This is the benefit of the people, since the release of political prisoners and their rehabilitation, in conducting an honest vote count for Belarus will open the gates to foreign direct investment, credit, which the country sorely lacking for the modernization of the economy. And in the final - the rise of the welfare of citizens , which struck three times as a result of incompetent, criminal actions of the government in 2010-2011.
Only manual mode did not go to the steps in the interests of Belarusians, and continues to keep behind bars: presidential candidate Nikolai Statkevich contender for the Nobel Peace Prize Ales Bialiatski, Vitebsk patriot Sergei Kovalenko, a youth leader Dmitry Dashkevich - 15 people. Also, local authorities have not included no representative democratic candidates in the district commission.
We used the opportunity to appeal to voters on television and radio, came to you with a program from the pages of regional publications. The regime has not shown willingness to release political prisoners, hold free elections.
In these circumstances, I support the decision to lift the Soima BPF candidates and declare my withdrawal from the so-called election campaign in the House of Representatives in Vitsebsk rural constituency number 21.
Courageous step for the voters will not be entitled to participate in the vote. Better Engage your household chores, go for mushrooms on September 23. But if officials force you to visit the site in order to vote, you vote against all.
We will continue to fight, the people had the opportunity to vote on the power of free and democratic elections. Glory to the heroes! Long live Belarus!
Leonid Avtukhov, candidate in Vitsebsk rural constituency number 21.
The final terms of the political assessment of the parliamentary elections of 2012
Second session of the Extraordinary Resolution XV Congress of the BPF, September 15, 2012
In January 2012 the BPF party were the conditions and the format of the party in the elections to the House of Representatives of the fifth convocation. First Session XV Congress of the BPF August 4, guided by the chosen tactics due to the participation, put forward a candidate for the House of Representatives from the BPF. This Party Congress BNF said that the appropriate conditions for the election in the first phase of the election campaign were created:
- The dungeons are prisoners of conscience, prisoners on the basis of their political, social activities, a number of politicians are in exile, or limited in their rights.
- The electoral legislation does not guarantee a fair, transparent and credible counting, equal conditions for the election campaign for all political actors, and not created real obstacles fraud.
- In the first stage of the election campaign was widely used administrative resources in favor of the candidates endorsed by the executive, and district election commissions have been formed without the real participation of the democratic opposition.
The further course of the election campaign showed that the government implement it as usual lack of public control over the vote count, restrictions and repression:
1) The administrative resource in the form of premature campaigning in the state media or using the labor collectives of state enterprises has been widely used by candidates, supported by the executive.
2) For the candidates of the BPF, as well as other candidates from the democratic opposition, have been created illegal obstacles to promotion, it became quite apparent in:
- Limited space and other opportunities for the election of pickets;
- Refusal printing election program of the candidate Alexander Streltsov with Polish and Lithuanian languages of national minorities;
- Failure to place a number of government publications to illustrate the candidate program BPF national coat of arms "race";
- A ban on illegal TV debates candidates running in the Grodno region.
3) Censorship programs and speeches of candidates, and a ban candidates to participate in debates as proxies of the other candidates were introduced by the Central Commission for Elections and National Referendums just during the campaign, which is an example of unlawful restrictions in the Electoral Code guarantees freedom of agitation.
4) Of the 233 representatives of the Belarusian Popular Front party and PA BPF "Revival", which have been advanced to precinct election commissions, the commissions were included only 13 people, depriving the party to participate in the counting of votes and an opportunity to manipulate the results of uncontrolled will of voters.
Based on the tactics chosen by the BPF party due to the participation in the electoral process of the extraordinary congress of the BPF XV states that the campaign was non-free, non-transparent, it does not give opportunities to candidates compete for votes and failed to meet the obligations of Belarus as a country - the OSCE, and the created without the participation of the opposition election commissions can not be considered authorities honestly believe voters.
Subject to the foregoing and following previous decisions about the format and conditions of participation in the election campaign, the BPF:
- Cancels its decision to nominate candidates to the House of Representatives;
- Calls on voters to abstain from voting on the basis of the lack of free and fair elections.
By Haradok.info
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