CEC reveals amount of money Belarusians donated to opposition
So far, the funds have been transferred only to the election funds of Tatstsiana Karatkevich and Syarhei Kalyakin.
The Central Election Commission has released data on the replenishment of the election funds of candidates for presidency. As it turned out, the money came only to the account of Tatstsiana Karatkevich and Syarhei Kalyakin. The candidate of the Tell the Truth and the Belarusian Popular Front party received 500 thousand rubles, the leader of the Belarusian Left - 210 thousand. No money has been transfered to the accounts of other potential candidates. But this is only the data of July 25, it appeared on the CEC website today.
Nominating groups of potential candidates were able to create election funds immediately after registration - that is July 17. Currently, only five nominating groups have taken advantage of this opportunity. The website dedicated to the election of 2015, has information on the accounts of Tatstsiana Karatkevich, Syarhei Kalyakin, Zhanna Ramanouskaya, Mikalai Ulakhovich and Viktar Tsyareshchanka.
This year, the state is not going to allocate the candidates and their nominating groups money, but the maximum amount of funds that can be used legally by the candidates has increased to 1 billion 620 million rubles.