20 Кастрычніка 2004
Only two of 16 candidates elected in Brest region are members of political parties

 Only two out of 16 candidates elected to the House of Representatives in the Brest region are members of political parties, according to Aleksandr Koleda, head of the regional election commission.
These two are Aleksandr Svirid of the Communist Party of Belarus and Aleksandr Zinchenko of the Agrarian Party.
All the 16 seats representing the province were filled. None of the opposition candidates who ran in the province managed to get elected to the 110-seat House. Eight out of the 10 sitting MPs who ran for reelection in the region were reelected, including Viktor Kuchinsky, Svetlana Gil, Valentina Kachan and Vladimir Zdanovich, Mr. Koleda told reporters in Brest on Monday. Ivan Kibak and Ivan Pashkevich lost their seats in the House. Four women will represent the region in the lower chamber. Voter turnout was 89.1 percent, with 75.7 percent voting to accept Aleksandr Lukashenko's proposal to lift the constitutional term limit on the presidency, according to Mr. Koleda. Only some 13 percent
reportedly voted against the idea.
Mr. Koleda said that some precincts in the Brest and Ivanovo districts saw all 100 percent of the voters say yes to the proposal.
None of some 3,600 observers that monitored the poll complained about any serious irregularities that could affected the voting results, he said.
Most of the observers, 3,500 were Belarusians, more than 30 represented CIS member countries and almost as many the OSCE.