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A militia officer rushed to help the woman. As he descended, he held in his hands something resembling a package of documents that might have contained ballots or other electoral documents.
It is not clear where the documents were taken.
The video was published by the most popular Belarusian blog on the social network Telegram Nexta. Delfi could not verify the authenticity of this video.
Oh Lord!
Member of the Electoral Commission has to leave table 17 (college 66) THROUGH THE WINDOW. Note the kind help of the policeman and the lady at the window giving something like a pile of papers.They seem more and more bullies.
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– Denis Kazakiewicz (@ Den_2042) August 9, 2020
This is not the only record that has emerged that reveals possible fraud during the presidential elections in Belarus.
On Friday, an independent public initiative distributed an 18-minute audio to monitor the fairness of the presidential elections, “Honest People.”
The audio recording shows how members of the electoral commission in Minsk are rehearsing the number to be given after the supposed vote count. Lukashenko predicted 69 percent. votes, S. Tichanovskaya – 7 percent. votes, Andrea Dmitriev – 5 percent, reports newsbel.by.
Such training was recorded at the 39th Gymnasium in Minsk, which was used as the 48th electoral district, writes grodno24.com.
“Those who are no longer newcomers and have been working for more than a year, probably know everything well. Yes? “The woman explains to the newcomers that the members of the commission must place the ballots according to the previously known results and report it for the purposes of the protocol. The number must be memorized or you can look at the” blank space. “
Last Wednesday, Ilya Shapotkovsky, leader of the Honest People organization, was arrested by militia officers. It has not yet been possible to verify that the record is authentic.
Voter turnout in some polling stations exceeded 100 percent.
During the presidential elections in Belarus, there were huge queues at most polling stations in Minsk, with voter turnout already exceeding 100% in some of them, reports the Belarusian opposition news portal tut.by, according to independent observers .
It is advertised as 100 percent. electoral participation exceeded at least two voting points.
For example, the list of voters for the 21st polling station, located in the facilities of the 43rd gymnasium, is 5.8 thousand. persons. According to the protocols of the electoral commissions, 2,000 people expressed their wishes in advance from August 4 to 8. voters. Meanwhile, independent observers of the poll in the constituency counted it on Sunday until 5 p.m. 30 minutes. came about 3.8 thousand. people, and a few hundred more are lining up.
According to independent observers, voters complained that they had been provided with previously damaged ballots, with dots or other markings, but were changed upon request. In some cases the date was not allowed to be entered on the ballot with the signature, but even so this “misunderstanding” was resolved after the outrage of voters.
Determined to continue in the presidency, Alexander Lukashenko promised the tut.by portal on Sunday a symmetrical response to “biased behavior.”
“What now, but I know your position, tut.by. And if you only express your position or someone’s, and it is clear that it is Petrov, Sidorov, Ivanov, I congratulate you. I am ready for a personal dialogue with you. But if you start to behave in a biased way, I also see that the approach is appropriate. And if you provoke, you will get the same response, “Lukashenko told reporters.
Belarus CRC: Complaints not worthy of consideration
Belarus’s Central Election Commission receives a large number of complaints from voters during the country’s presidential elections on Sunday, but they are all “typical” and not worth considering, said Lydia Yermoshina, head of the Central Election Commission (CEC). .
“There are many complaints. The only thing is that they are absolutely typical, that is, based on an example prepared by someone (…). There is nothing to discuss there (in the complaints – ed.). They are formal issues” said L. Jermošina on the air of the main television of the country.
He added that there are no plans to extend the work of the polling stations due to the number of voters still attached to them.
“The voting time cannot be extended,” he said, adding that the queues were due to “provocations from the opposition, including a person who stayed at the voting booth for half an hour or more.”
Poland called for an extraordinary EU summit on the situation in Belarus
Poland on Monday called for an extraordinary European Union summit on the situation in Belarus after clashes broke out between opposition supporters and security forces in Minsk and other cities following controversial presidential elections.
“The government has used force against its citizens to demand changes in the country,” Prime Minister Mateusz Morawieckis said in a statement.
“Poland is responsible for its immediate neighbors. That is why Prime Minister Mateusz Morawieckis has asked in a letter to the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to convene a European Council on the events in Belarus, “the Polish government said in a statement on Twitter.
“We must show solidarity with Belarusian aspirations for freedom,” the government added. “Here comes the initiative of the Polish head of government that the issue be debated in the European Council.”
At the time, Rikard Jozwiak, a journalist for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE / RL), said on Twitter that such a meeting was unlikely to be called.
“An extraordinary European Council on Belarus is unlikely now that a large part of the EU [pareigūnų] vacation. “The situation in this country will probably be discussed at the EU MFA leaders’ meeting in Berlin on August 27-28 and at the Council of the European Union on September 24,” he said.
According to the EU meeting calendar, an informal meeting of the Community’s foreign ministers is scheduled for 27-28 August in Germany and a regular meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council is scheduled for 24 September.
EU asks Belarus to count votes “accurately”
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on Monday asked Belarus to announce the exact results of the presidential elections, with a preliminary vote count showing a landslide victory for authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko.
“Belarus must respect fundamental rights,” von der Leyen wrote on Twitter. “I call on the Belarusian authorities to ensure that the votes from yesterday’s elections are accurately counted and announced.”
Von der Leyen, the chief executive of the European Union, also criticized the militias’ crackdown on opposition supporters who took to the streets of Minsk and other parts of the country to protest after official preliminary results showed that Lukashenko was winning the elections.
Preliminary figures released by the Belarusian Central Election Commission show that long-term leader Lukashenko has secured a sixth term at 80.236 percent. votes, but the opposition claims the results were falsified.
“There is no place in Europe for the persecution and violent repression of peaceful protesters [prieš juos]”- noted Mr. von der Leyen.
Belarus’ Russian neighbor Vladimir Putin congratulated Lukashenko on his electoral victory, but several EU members protested the disputed election and the German government expressed “serious doubts” about the vote.
The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, received a letter from the Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, calling for an urgent European Union summit on the situation in Belarus.
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