Elections in all constituencies in the Vitebsk region will be held on an alternative basis

September 18, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. Elections in all constituencies in the Vitebsk region will be held on an alternative basis, Leonid Dorofeyenko, deputy head of the organizational and personnel work department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, told a BELTA correspondent. Seven candidates have withdrawn from the election race. Thus, 42 candidates are running in 14 constituencies, of whom 22 represent political parties. National and international observers are monitoring the progress of the election campaign in the region. More than 2,000 national observers alone have been accredited. As Leonid Dorofeyenko noted, all polling stations are ready for voting and have opened for early voting. In the Vitebsk region, 898 polling stations have been established, 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-