Elections in Belarus 2015

Belsat.eu readers tell us in their letters about the collection of signatures for Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

Signatures for nomination of the incumbent leader of Belarus a presidential candidate are being collected directly in the therapist’s consulting room in Hrodna municipal polyclinic No 1.

The initiative group to nominate Anatol Lyabedzka, the leader of the United Civic Party of Belarus (UCPB), a presidential candidate held the picket “Which job should Lukashenka be slotted into?” in Minsk

TV debate of the presidential candidates will be held on October 3, the chairwoman of the Central Election Commission Lidziya Yarmoshyna told journalists after the CEC meeting.

Strange message has appeared on computers of the Belarusian State Institute of Standardization and Certification.

Due to the poor state of the economy, experts predict no ‘generosity stunt’ before the election, which has become a tradition of the presidential campaigns in Belarus.

Changes in Belarus can happen any time, said the creator of the Internet site Belarusian Partisan, the host of the Dialogues program on the Ukrainian TV channel 24 Pavel Sharamet.

Tatsiana Karatkevich, a potential candidate for president, visited the Belarusian city of Hrodna . She arrived in the company of political scientist Ihar Lyalkov, a representative of coalition ‘People’s Referendum’.

Due to the absence of free and fair elections, as well as the fragmentation of the opposition, the party Belarusian Christian Democracy has decided not to nominate a candidate and not to support any of them during the election campaign in 2015.

Russia cannot interfere in other countries’ election campaigns, but it supports the reelection of Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Russian Ambassador to Belarus Aleksandr Surikov told news agency BelaPAN in Minsk on Wednesday.

Deputy Head of the new movement started by Mr Nyeklyayeu has announced his presidential bid.

The closer it is to the election, the more alive is the political life in Belarus. Women candidates who are not ready to call people to the square and parasite candidate, whom saw the spirit of Pazniak, attempted to present themselves.

Chair of the Central Election Commission explains why it is necessary to hold an election and speaks on the chances of female candidates.

In the interview with belsat.eu Belarusian poet and politician Uladzimir Nyaklyayeu told belsat.eu why one would not get anywhere with the Belarusian opposition and what kind of president Belarus really needs.