Parliamentary pre-election campaigning starts in Belarus today
Baku, August 27 (AZERTAC). The main polling day is set on Sunday, September 23. And till this day candidates can deliver their programs and call to vote for them in specially allotted places. Candidates will get time to speak on TV and radio from today (August 27). Besides, applicants have the right to publish their election programs in one of national newspapers.
“Campaign presentations, as well as participation in TV and radio debates are voluntary. If a candidate finds other means of election campaign, face-to-face meetings for example, to be more effective, and he chooses to communicate with voters in person, it is up to him,” said the CEC Secretary.
The candidates can also choose a regional or a district news paper (state news papers or partially financed by federal or local budgets ones, or those news papers, one of the founders of which is a state authority).
Text of a campaign program both in paper and electronic formats, signed by a candidate, should be submitted to the editors not later than on September 2nd. The election campaign in Belarus will continue until September 22nd. Election Day is scheduled for September 23rd.
Belarus' Central Election Commission says 362 candidates have been registered to compete in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The election commission said 124 applications were rejected and seven would-be-candidates have pulled out of the race.
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