BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

19/01/2007

Belarusian Authorities Release Final Rewsults Of Local Elections

The Central Election Commission announced on January 18 the final results of the January 9-14 local elections, Belapan reported. The average turnout was 79 percent, with the highest in Vitsyebsk Oblast (90 percent) and the lowest in the city of Minsk (60 percent). Elections filled 22,639 out of the 22,661 contested seats in the Belarusian local councils. Repeat elections will be held in 22 electoral districts, three of which featured no candidates and, in the remaining 19, no candidate obtained the required 50 percent of the vote. Commission head Lidziya Yarmoshyna said that complaints filed during the election campaign did not contain mention any violations of electoral regulations. Yarmoshyna also rebutted German and EU criticism of the elections. "The European Union draws its conclusions based on reports from biased sources rather than on impartial, verified circumstances and facts...the EU should not be guided by unreliable information in such statements," she said. AM

Source:

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2007/01/3-cee/cee-190107.asp

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