Does the Central Commission really
exist?
All my acquaintances who visited its session 20.09.2000 have such a question.
That day the session of the Central commission of the Republic of belarus on the election and realisation of referendums (CC) was held. The Complaints of the not registered candidates in the deputies of the Chamber of the Representatives of the National assembly were discused. The complaints of Alexander Vasiliev, Marina Levonevskaya, leaders of the democratic movement in the Grodno region were considered at the end of the working day. They all three were refused to realise their right on the legal help by L. Ermoshina, a chairman of the Central Commission. Their representative, a member of the Grodno branch of the Belorussian Helsinki Committee was not allowed to participation in the trial with the Complaints. This is the roughest breach of article 62 of the Constitution of Republic of Belarus. And the decision about the prohibition to get of the legal help was accepted not by the commission but by L. Ermoshina personally. On all businesses the text of the Complaints of the above mentioned citizens was not even read by the members of the commission. Their reasons were not practically discussed, and Marina Levonevskaya was solely has forbidden to add the Complaint. They read the conclusion "of experts", asked a pair of formal questions and voted. It is a conveyor. And the buttons "Start" and "Stop" are in the hands of L. Ermoshina. It reminded old "kind" times. 1937. "Three men". To "shoot". Who is "for"? Unanimously. You are free.
The question on the Commission who “was refrained" or who was "against" at the voting was not asked.
But we shall return to our Grodno applicants. Why wee they refused in the registration?
Marina Levonevskaya and Alexander Vasiliev were refused because of their party-membership. The commission asserts that they have hidden that they are the members of the United Civil Party (UCP). What for did A. Lebedko (the chairman of UCP) and his fraternity play a dirty trick, having submitted the lists of the members of the party which consists from «dead souls»in the bodies of Justice? It is clear. They "boycott" the election and want to do harm in maximal size to the opponents. So, they give out the information to the elective commission that the persons having already left the party and never submitting applications to join it are its members.
The position of the Elective Commission is not clear. You see, the membership in the party should be confirmed documentary. I.e. there should be an application from a citizen to join the party, the decision of the joint body about joining to the party (protocol) and the most important thing is the confirmation of the citizen that he is a member of the party. The commission and leaders of UCP do not have, but all of them amicably affirm all the same that you a members of the party.
We know A. Lebedko, A. Dobrovolsky, G Raspopov and other "leaders" of this party for a long time, we know them as deeply dishonourable people, on this ground there was the conflict in the party. But such it was impossible to expect such actions even from them. They, maybe have already enlisted A. Lukashenko with the present Chamber of the Representatives, Government and elective Commissions to their party lists. It is a booby-hatch, instead of the party!
Maybe L. Ermoshina is already a member of this party.
Marina Levonevskaya was also accused by CC in one more "breach": her duties of the accountant in the public organisation were thought of as the concealment of the place of work. Reasons of Marina Levonevskaya that she never received wages for this "work" and there is no even an order about the engagement were not taken into the account.
Who are the lawyers working in CC? They say that among members of the commission there was the vice-chairman of the Supreme Court. They do not know elementary things known even for a schoolboy.
But it is necessary to thank the Central commission because they removed the absolutely crazy statement of the District selective commission #52 (Grodno Central district) about the in-authenticity of the signatures in subscription sheets of M. Levonevskaya and about the doubtful information in her declaration on the incomes from the decision about the refusal in the registration.
I had an impression that everything has already decided, and the session of CC is a simple formality where the members of CC create "mass meeting" and legalise the decisions of other "uncles".
As to the author of these lines, Valery Levonevsky, the reasons to refuse him are very confidential: in the declaration about the incomes he specified the doubtful information. What they are – they do not tell. Earlier the district commission justified the refusal in the registration because he did not specify a wooden structure at the dacha (the toilet) in the declaration. And it is the concealment of the property.
What now the "virtuosos" from CC will think up, we shall see! They will explain in the Supreme Court.
The disposal of legal proceeding will pass September 23, 2000 in a building of the Supreme Court in Minsk:
At 11.00 under the complaint of Valery Levonevsky
At 14.00 under the Complaint of Marina Levonevskaya
At 15.30 under the Complaint of Alexander Vasiliev
22.09.2000 Valery Levonevsky
