About 80 observers from the CIS will work at the parliamentary elections in the Vitebsk region
The mission will include representatives from all CIS states. During the elections, they plan to visit all electoral districts in the region. "Today we visited all four district commissions of Vitebsk and talked with their chairpersons. All work is proceeding normally and calmly in accordance with the law. Tomorrow we plan to observe the formation of precinct election commissions," noted Olga Kremskaya.
During a meeting with representatives of observers from the CIS, Dmitry Khoma, chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Commission for the Election of Deputies to the House of Representatives of the seventh convocation, noted that 53 initiative groups have been registered in the region. "No serious complaints or violations, including regarding the work of these groups, have been received by the regional commission," he said.
In total, in the Vitebsk region, more than 9.7 thousand candidates have been nominated for the 768 precinct commissions, of which almost half are represented by public associations and political parties. More than 3.9 thousand potential election commission members have been nominated by citizens through applications, and over 1 thousand by work collectives.