The canvassing picket by the initiative group of potential candidate for Parliament, chairman of Zhlobin district executive committee Leanid Apanasiuk was staged next to a bus stop, which is prohibited by a decision of local authorities, Marat Afanasyeu, local leader of the United Civil Party of Belarus, reports.

“I phoned the secretary of the election commission, but she was busy, so I called the police,” says Marat Afanasyeu.

“I then received a phone call from the commission’s secretary, who told me the picket was staged 56 meters away from the bus stop. However, it was evident that the pro-government picketers violated what they had banned. It turns out that the picket restrictions had been designed for representatives of the town’s pro-democratic forces,” says the politician.