Belarus’ Central Election Commission receives registration applications from nine initiative groups

16 июля 2015

Registration of initiative groups to nominate presidential election candidates continues in Belarus, with the deadline running out in a day. Today, the Central Election Commission has received applications from another six initiative groups representing Irina Pershina, Zhanna Romanovskaya, Nikolai Statkevich, Anatoly Lebedko, Tatiana Korotkevich and Andrei Konovets. A total of nine initiative groups have been registered with the CEC. Alexander Lukashenko’s initiative group was the first to apply on Tuesday, followed by the initiative groups of Sergei Gaidukevich and Sergei Kalyakin.

The collection of signatures for nominating presidential candidates will begin in a week, on 23 July.