Parliamentary election in Belarus 2012

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(in %)
 %
80
70
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
74.21
4.76
2.69
1.87
1.51
0.77
0.73
0.18
11.77
Independent
Otherwise.
No
Gains and losses
compared to 2008
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
-3.92
+3.95
-1.58
-0.50
+1.09
+0.17
+0.41
-3.51
+2.39
Independent
Otherwise.
No
3
1
1
104
1
3 1 1 104 1 
A total of 110 seats
  • KPB : 3
  • RPTS : 1
  • BAP : 1
  • Independent (loyal to the government): 104
  • Vacant : 1

The parliamentary elections in Belarus in 2012 took place on September 23. The date was set by the dictatorial ruling President Aljaksandr Lukashenka . Around seven million people were eligible to vote. According to the preliminary official final result, with a turnout of 74.2%, 109 of the 110 seats were already awarded in the first ballot. There was a runoff election in only one constituency. The elections were criticized internationally.

Electoral process

Constituency of Belarus

Around 300 candidates applied for a total of 110 mandates in the House of Representatives . The voting process was the same and secret direct election. It was possible to vote as early as September 18, five days before election Sunday. The official reason for this was that this would allow more Belarusians to exercise their right to vote. On the first day of the vote, over half of the eligible voters went to the polls. However, the long election period also makes election observation difficult.

In each constituency, the winner is the candidate who can unite the absolute majority of the votes. If none of the candidates achieve an absolute majority, a runoff election will take place two weeks later.

Candidates

The participating parties included Belaya Rus , the Agrarian Party , the Communist Party of Belarus, as well as the opposition Communist Party and the “For Freedom” movement from the Belarusian Independent Bloc . The two largest opposition parties, the United Citizens' Party and the Partyja BNF (also known as the “Belarusian National Front”) boycotted the election and allowed themselves to be removed from the ballot papers. The writer and opposition politician Vladimir Neklyayev , who took part in the 2010 presidential elections , has also considered boycotting the election. His movement “ Tell the truth ” should not be the “fig leaf” with which Lukashenka could give the ballot box the appearance of legitimacy.

According to the organization Reporters Without Borders , members of the opposition would be punished for even mentioning the planned election boycott on social networks . The Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Narodnaya Hramada), led by Mikalaj Statkewitsch , and the alliance of Ales Michalewitsch were not allowed to run for election.

Result

The Agrarian Party and the Republican Labor and Justice Party each won one seat. Most of the seats were won by the Communist Party of Belarus , which received three seats. The other MPs were not party members. Not a single opposition member entered parliament.

criticism

The elections were criticized internationally. Oppositionists and journalists were hindered in the election campaign. The opposition in Belarus put the turnout at just 38 percent, which would make the election invalid.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lukashenko insults opponents as "cowards" zeit.de from 23 September 2012
  2. ↑ Lukashenka's staged election in: faz.net , September 24, 2012
  3. ↑ "Europe's last dictator" lets vote in dradio.de , 23 September 2012
  4. ↑ Belarus: A tame parliament for Lukashenko ( Memento from September 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), in: Tagesschau.de, September 22, 2012
  5. ↑ Brakel, Alexander: Belarus before the parliamentary elections in: Country reports of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, September 12, 2012
  6. ^ Opposition boycotts parliamentary elections , in: FAZ.net , 23 September 2012.
  7. ↑ Belarus's opposition: Caught in the Lukashenko Trap , in: Spiegel Online , February 18, 2012.
  8. ^ Opposition journalists and cyber-dissidents hounded in run-up to election , in: Reporters Without Borders , September 3, 2012.
  9. ^ Dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH: Opposition forces excluded from election in Belarus. In: welt.de . July 27, 2012, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  10. ↑ http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/belarus.html
  11. ↑ Julia Smirnova: Election in Belarus: Lukashenko gets his tame parliament. In: welt.de . September 23, 2012, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  12. ↑ [1] , accessed on September 25, 2012