The district executive committees of Homel held their sittings to form precinct election commissions on 8 August. However, journalists of the “Homelskiya Vedamastsi” informed their readers that the commissions had been formed and even called the number of the people in the commissions already on 7 August, which again witnesses that such sittings are a mere imitation of the democratic procedure.

This fact was noticed by an observer of the Belarusnan Helsinki Committee Viktar Adzinochanka.

“Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections”