2 March 2003
Belarusian Helsinki Committee to contest voting results at Brest Regional Hospital
The Belarusian Helsinki Committee (BHC) intends to contest the results of the March 2 voting in the Brest Regional Hospital located in the city's Electoral District N10.
One of the two candidates in the district, Valentin Lazarenkov of the Belarusian Free Trade Union, accused the voting-precinct commission of failing to post his campaign ads at the polling station. Mr. Lazarenkov, who is running against Aleksandr Karpitsky, chief physician of the hospital, said that his rival's campaign ads were posted at each floor in the hospital building.
Election officials denied observers permission to accompany them when they went room-to-room to deliver ballot boxes to patients, Igor Korobeinikov, a BHC observer, told BelaPAN. He said that he intended to report some 18 irregularities in the voting-precinct to the regional and city election commissions.
Mr. Lazarenkov said that just 18 patients give him their votes, while 591 supported his rival. The regional branch of the BHC said these were the most serious irregularities reported by its observers so far.
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