VITEBSK, 19 October (BelTA) – CIS observers that have been sent to monitor the presidential election in Belarus have arrived in Vitebsk Oblast, BelTA learned from Vyacheslav Kryukovsky, Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast commission for the Belarus president election. The observers started getting familiar with the progress of the election campaign in the region by visiting territorial election commissions. Without limiting themselves to Vitebsk they visited rural areas. According to Vyacheslav Kryukovsky, the election campaign in the oblast goes on calmly in a businesslike manner. The oblast commission has received no complaints, he said. In the oblast there are 911 polling stations for the Belarus president election. Two polling stations will be available in military units, another fifty will be open in sanatoriums, hospitals, and sanatoriums. In the Vitebsk Oblast there are 28 territorial election commissions, including one oblast commission, 21 district commissions, three town commissions in major towns and three city district commissions in Vitebsk. They employ 364 people. More than half of them represent public associations and political parties, 27.7% have been nominated by citizens through collecting signatures, 19.8% have been nominated by labor collectives. The commissions include members of the Belarusian Leftist Party “Fair World”, the Communist Party of Belarus, the Liberal Democratic Party, the United Civil Party, the National Labor and Justice Party. Women account for over 60% of the members of the commissions. Belarusians under 30 account for 9.1% of the commission members.

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