More than 30 observers from the CIS are set to work at polling stations in the Vitebsk region on election day

September 20, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. More than 30 observers from the CIS will work at polling stations in the Vitebsk region on election day for deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus of the fifth convocation, the deputy head of the organizational and personnel work department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Leonid Dorofeyenko, told a BELTA correspondent. Among the foreign short-term observers will also be members of the election observation mission of the OSCE/ODIHR. More than 4,000 national observers are going to monitor the voting process. Thus, on average, there will be more than four observers per polling station. Elections in all 14 constituencies in the Vitebsk region will be held on an alternative basis. 42 candidates have reached the home stretch of the election campaign, of whom 22 represent political parties. According to data as of the morning of September 20, 8.3% of the region's voters took part in early voting. 898 polling stations have been established in the Vitebsk region, including 48 in sanatoriums, rest homes, hospitals and other stationary medical and preventive institutions, and 2 in military units. Early voting is taking place at 850 polling stations. -0-