PhD rejected as election commission member over… lack of experience

PhD Iryna Laurouskaya was not accepted to be a election commission member in Brest, Radio Liberty reports. 

The scholar had collected the required signatures from ten citizens in order to be able to become a member of the election commission No 54 and came to the meeting of Brest's Maskouski District administration. 

"There were 20 people willing to become members of the election committee. They had to choose 15. When the vote started, they wrote that I “was not recommended” because they had a work group headed by Alyaksandr Zalatuhin (head of Brest's Maskouski District ideology department). I objected to it and asked why I was not recommended. Their explanation was that I had never worked in an election committee before," Laurouskaya told journalists.

The PhD was surprised at such an explanation. There were several members of pro-democracy parties and organizations at the meeting. But none of them were included in the election commission, Laurouskaya said.