{"id":72463,"date":"2024-03-12T16:39:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/72463\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"nominations-open-for-upper-chamber-all-belarusian-peoples-assembly","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/72463\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominations open for upper chamber, All-Belarusian People’s Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

March 12, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> The central election commission has opened nominations for seats at the National Assembly’s Council of the Republic and the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly, a political body that approves key domestic and foreign policy priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local councils will vote by secret ballot to approve eight members of the upper chamber for each of the six regions and the city of Minsk. Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka appoints the remaining eight members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leadership of local councils of deputies and executive committees, as well as the Minsk City Council’s presidium and the Minsk City Executive Committee are eligible to propose nominees, the election commission said. Nominations close on March 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As previous nomination campaigns suggest, the local executive branch usually pick the nominees who are elected unopposed by local councils.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By March 31, local councils of deputies of various levels can propose 290 delegates to the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly; local branches of pro-government associations can put forward 400 delegates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The delegates will be approved between April 1 and 10. The People’s Assembly is expected to convene in late April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lower chamber of the Belarusian parliament, the House of Representatives, and the local councils were formed after the parliamentary and local elections held from February 20 to 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elections were marred by political reprisals. Not a single opposition candidate was allowed to compete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rights groups reported gross irregularities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States condemned the Belarus\u2019 elections as a sham. The foreign ministries of Germany, Denmark, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Sweden as well as Ukrainian and German MPs and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe made similar conclusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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