Yarmoshyna: I am indifferent that opposinionists have not made it to electoral commissions
Lidziya Yarmoshyna, chairperson of the Central Election Commission, complains about opposition's low activity in forming electoral commissions and explains why homeless people will not be able to elect their candidate. The formation of electoral commissions ended on January 29, 2010. According to CEC chairwoman, 105 people from political parties were included in local commissions. They account for 90 percent of all the submitted applications. There will be a total of 11,697 people working at the electoral commissions, says Lidziya Yarmoshyna. These fugures demonstrate loaw activity of political parties, reckons Yarmoshyna.
However, there are 10 percent that were not allowed to enter electoral commissions. Some of them reckon that they were denied membership illegally.
Yarmoshyna: "We have received complaints from the Homel region and Homel city electoral commissions. Some people from the parties described as the opposition, I think the United Civic Party, have filed complaints".
The chairwoman of the Central Election Commission was sincerely surprised by the low level of education of the activists with opposition parties.
Yarmoshyna: "You know, this is just a pseudo-game in pseudo laws. They know for sure where complaints should be filed to. They should be filed with courts. It is simply ridiculous to read all this!"
She advised not to pretnd being too witty and to send complaints where they should be sent to, under the new electoral laws.
She also admitted she did not really care why some representatives of the opposition were not included into local electoral commissions.
Yarmoshyna: "I am not interested in politics. I am interested in observing the law -- Electoral Code.Since there is no evidence that laws were violated, I have no claims against the bodies that formed electoral commissions".
The formation of electoral constituencies will have been finished by February 4. There will be 20,000 constituencies. But homeless citizens of Belarus will not be able to elect their candidate, because they are expected to live at least temporarily within a certain constituency in order to vote.
When asked by Euroradio if observers are going to be allowed to take part in counting votes, Yarmoshyna said:
"The Central Election Commission does not make lawes. Observers will be entitled to the rights, stipulated by Article 13 in the Electoral Code.
This means that observers will watch vote-count from the place determined by the chairman of the electoral commission.
Photo: Zmitser Lukashuk
However, there are 10 percent that were not allowed to enter electoral commissions. Some of them reckon that they were denied membership illegally.
Yarmoshyna: "We have received complaints from the Homel region and Homel city electoral commissions. Some people from the parties described as the opposition, I think the United Civic Party, have filed complaints".
The chairwoman of the Central Election Commission was sincerely surprised by the low level of education of the activists with opposition parties.
Yarmoshyna: "You know, this is just a pseudo-game in pseudo laws. They know for sure where complaints should be filed to. They should be filed with courts. It is simply ridiculous to read all this!"
She advised not to pretnd being too witty and to send complaints where they should be sent to, under the new electoral laws.
She also admitted she did not really care why some representatives of the opposition were not included into local electoral commissions.
Yarmoshyna: "I am not interested in politics. I am interested in observing the law -- Electoral Code.Since there is no evidence that laws were violated, I have no claims against the bodies that formed electoral commissions".
The formation of electoral constituencies will have been finished by February 4. There will be 20,000 constituencies. But homeless citizens of Belarus will not be able to elect their candidate, because they are expected to live at least temporarily within a certain constituency in order to vote.
When asked by Euroradio if observers are going to be allowed to take part in counting votes, Yarmoshyna said:
"The Central Election Commission does not make lawes. Observers will be entitled to the rights, stipulated by Article 13 in the Electoral Code.
This means that observers will watch vote-count from the place determined by the chairman of the electoral commission.
Photo: Zmitser Lukashuk
