Chairperson of BT Gets Away with a Violation of Electoral Law

The chair­per­son of the Cen­tral Elec­toral Com­mit­tee Lidziya Yarmoshy­na reg­is­tered a com­plaint against Henadz Davy­dz­ka and gave a rep­ri­mand to the proxy. How­ev­er, the action is not exact­ly what the Elec­toral Code envis­ages: if a proxy vio­lates the law, CEC issues a warn­ing to the can­di­date, two warn­ings are enough to can­cel the candidate’s reg­is­tra­tion.

The Euro­ra­dio addressed the ques­tion to Lidziya Yarmoshy­na, stat­ing that a rep­ri­mand to the candidate’s proxy was not the right mea­sure. The CEC chair­per­son agreed: “There isn’t such thing in the Code. It is a pre­ven­tive mea­sure. And do you need that I would shoot him for this?”

Henadz Davy­dz­ka says there was no vio­la­tion: when the pro­gram was record­ed, he still did not have the proxy’s man­date.