VLADIMIR GONCHARIK: WE’RE IN FOR GRANDIOSE ELECTION FALSIFICATION

The electoral commissions are ordered to ensure 61% of cast votes for Alexander Lukashenko in the first round of presidential elections, said opposition candidate Vladimir Goncharik at the September 8 press-conference in Minsk: “Something that’s going on in the country ahead of elections can’t be called anything but the legal arbitrariness, - deems Goncharik: They gravely violate legislation. The voters are pressured into pre-voting. Lukashenko’s statement on free and fair elections is but a myth. We are in for a grandiose election fabrication, - said the candidate, calling on the world community to do everything in its power to stop the great deceit or even “the seizure of power by Alexander Lukashenko”. Minsk coordinator of independent observation Boris Gunter reported that overnight September 8-9, right after the end of the pre-voting, they plot to replace the ballot sheets in boxes. “According to our information the sheets will be replaced in such a way that 90% of them would be for Lukashenko. They have been told to encompass with pre-voting up to 40% of electorate, so that Luakshenko could celebrate 60% victory at the end. According to the CEC over the three days about 5,5% cast their votes, which are the lowered figures,” – said Gunter. As claimed by the coordinator, the independent observer at the 21st polling station of Sovietsky district of Minsk recorded the unsealing of the ballot box with 700 ballots inside, after which they sealed it anew. Gunter went on to enumerate around a dozen of stations, where the observers claimed violations.