ELECTIONS-2016: Nomination of candidates for senators will take place today throughout the Vitebsk region

The nomination of candidates for the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus will take place today in the Vitebsk region, as reported by the main department of organizational and personnel work of the regional executive committee.

Joint meetings of the presidiums of city and district Councils of Deputies and relevant executive committees will be held in the cities and districts of the region, where candidates for senators will be nominated. The Vitebsk region needs to delegate 8 people to the upper house of parliament.

The actual elections of senators will take place at a meeting of the local Councils of Deputies of the basic level of the region, which will be held between August 25 and September 13. The election results must be finalized no later than September 30. The Council of the Republic is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Belarus. It includes 64 people, with 56 people being elected, and another 8 appointed by the President of Belarus.

Alena Tikhonova - BELTA.