The elections to the Council of the Republic (Belarus’ upper parliamentary house) were completed on Tuesday.
The elections took place at meetings of members of the “base-level” local soviets (elected councils) in each of Belarus’ six regions and at a meeting of the Minsk City Soviet, which were held between September 6 and September 25.
Under Belarus’ Electoral Code, the right to nominate for the Council of the Republic belongs to the presidiums of the local base-level soviets and the local executive committees in districts and cities of regional subordination, and to the Presidium of the Minsk City Soviet and the Minsk City Executive Committee.
People are always elected to the Council of the Republic in uncontested votes as each local soviet and executive committee nominates only one candidate.
“There is no doubt that the elections will not fail because there cannot be problems with turnout, unlike in elections for the House of Representatives,” Mikalaj Lazavik, the secretary of the Central Election Commission, said.
Mr. Lazavik said that the central election commission was expected to consider approving the results of the elections for both the House of Representatives and the Council of the Republic at its meeting at the end of the week. “Everything will depend on whether we manage to consider complaints and draw up the necessary documents,” he noted.
The Council of the Republic is a chamber of territorial representation, which has 64 seats. Eight members of the Council are appointed by the President of the Republic of Belarus, while the remaining 56 members, eight members from each region and the city of Minsk, are elected to four-year terms by secret ballot on the basis of equal and indirect suffrage at meetings of members of the base-level local soviets in the area.
Experts say that the uncontested elections for the Council of the Republic are a merely formal procedure and all those nominated get elected.
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