Minsk, Belarus
Belarus’ authoritarian government this week rejected all of the opposition’s nominees for election-poll monitors. Instead, all monitors for the October parliamentary elections will be members of the governing Belarusian Popular Front of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. “This shows that they will resort to mass falsifications,” said Vintsuk Vyachorka, head of the opposition Belarusian National Front. “They don’t even have enough brains to create an appearance of democracy by letting a certain number of representatives of democratic forces sit on district or polling-station commissions.” International election monitors have declared the last several presidential and parliamentary elections in Belarus unfair.
The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.