Top election official criticizes OSCE observers

In Babruysk, Mahilyow region, OSCE monitors "overturned a ballot box in an attempt to get ballot papers out of it," while one OSCE observer approached
voters asking them to give their ballot papers to him instead of dropping them into a ballot box, Ms. Yarmoshyna said. The central election commission also received a report from the number 106 election district where Syarhey Kalyakin, leader of the opposition Belarusian Party of Communists, is running that "international observers are taking lists of voters away from members of a precinct election commission," she said. "An observer does not have the right to do this. He may only ask questions." Ms. Yarmoshyna said that she hoped that such instances would not repeat. She said that no complaints about CIS observers had been submitted to the central election commission.

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