MINSK — Belarusians go to the ballot boxes Sunday to elect their president. It won’t be a European-style election. An unexpected outcome is out of the question.
The Central Election Committee chairman has been personally picked by President Aleksander Lukashenko, and its composition has remained unchanged since 1996, although since then observers with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe have not recognized a single election as free and fair.
Every election committee is appointed by the president’s administration. When votes are being counted the observers are kept so far from the tables holding the ballot papers that they cannot possibly …read more
Source: European Voice
