Regional newspaper " Vitebsk conduct" summed up the step of forming the territorial election commissions . And informed its readers that " to date the activity of political parties is hardly noticeable " because of the party members , " The commission is composed of 17 people , or about 1% , including 13 members of the PBC ." The newspaper did not consider it necessary to explain that " entered " - it does not mean " wanted to go " and that opposition parties were candidates for participation in the committees, which there is simply not included.

For example, representatives of 48 BPF election commissions were only three people in Minsk, Vitebsk and Brest regions . Accordingly, throughout the Vitebsk region - only 1 person. Local authorities , forming the commission, did not satisfy the desire to get the Regional Electoral Commission deputy chairman of the regional branch of the BPF Kastus Smolikova in Polotsk, Novopolotsk and Orsha district committees also formed without representatives of the democratic forces.

The fact anyone involved in the commission , and who refused to clearly show the numbers: according to official data , in the territorial commissions Vitebsk region included 1790 people, or 98.5 % of all applicants.

Not included in the Commission and human rights activists - BHC representatives . But very typical list of other associations and quantitative composition of their members included in the Commission : Representatives of the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus (359 people, more than 20% of the total) , the Belarusian Association of Veterans ( 101 persons or 5.6%), the Belarusian Union women (87 persons or 4.9 %) , Youth Union (70 people or 3.9%), NGO " Belaya Rus" (61 people or 3.4%).

Viasna Human Rights Center