It will be easier to collect signatures for bandidates, official says
The
central election commission plans to change rules governing local elections to
make it easier for candidates to campaign and collect voter signatures, secretary
Mikalay Lazavik told ERB.
Belarus in
April 2010 months before the presidential election. Local and foreign observers
see the elections as a test of the government's willingness to carry out
democratic reform.
"The
technical candidate nomination procedures and campaign rules will be liberalized
and simplified. Specific changes will deal with nomination, i.e. the collection
of signatures. Fewer bureaucratic procedures will be needed to certify signatures,"
Lazavik said.