belarus 24! good morning, the television news agency continues the information channel in the studio of sergei lugovsky and polina shuba. there is a single voting day in belarus, every hour live we talk and show how the country makes its choice. at these moments , a press conference of the head of the central election commission, igor korpenko, begins in the information center . i will ask the directors to display the video from the conference on the screens. watch the broadcast. good afternoon,

colleagues, we are now in the main information center, here they have already announced that there will be the first press conference for today, the schedule is such that at 10, at 13, after 15, at 17, 19 at 21 today, well , the first press conference is here, i will say that the information center in the palace of the republic officially began its work the day before, and here is everything journalists who want to hear information. first-hand press conferences will be from the chairman of the central election commission, as well as the secretary of the central election commission. they will perform here one by one. it must be said that there are 419 journalists and 28 foreign media accredited to work for this company, and these are the main media from russia, china and turkey. it will be possible to ask questions here from the audience after such information is given. central

election commission, but i will say right away that the figures that were the day before have already been announced, yes, voting has been going on for 2 hours, polling stations opened at 8:00, but the preliminary voting results are such that the turnout is 42%, almost, but the most our active ones are the gomel and mogilev regions, the less active ones are minsk, but in principle this is always from company to company, minsk is more in total votes on the main voting day. well, and also approximately not from the very morning, not from 8:00 a.m., closer still, activity begins precisely at noon. well , let’s now listen to the basic information coming from the center of the electoral commission. today there are 1,284 territorial, 110 district and 5,411 precinct election commissions. let me remind you that the voting process is being monitored.

by region brest region 46.3%, vitebsk region 43.28%, gomel region 51.63%, grodno region - 40.85%, minsk region 42.58%. mogilev region.

before 18:00, contact the precinct commission to organize voting at your place of residence. in order to find your voting precinct, you can use the precinct search service, which operates on the main page of the official cec website, or find information about precincts on the websites of the relevant executive administrative bodies in the regions. this is the information,

good morning, colleagues, hello everyone, dear tv viewers, i’m on perhaps one of the most sporting polling stations in our country, in raobichi, its number 77, voting booth, members of the precinct election commission, absolutely everything here works as usual, everything is correct, it was here that

olympic champion dinara smolskaya cast her vote ahead of schedule, in fact, like her husband, anton smolsky, and in general in this area. sports as well as those who these days are at training camps or directly at competitions here in the republican center . most recently, the sports complex ended olympic training in winter sports , the final of the republican competition for the prizes of the presidential sports club snow sniper, these days the belarusian championship is taking place.

24-hour police protection and there are even special alarm buttons installed here, this is the news i have, we continue our work at polling station number 77 in raubichi, waiting for a sports exclusive, but for now colleagues, i give the floor to you, thank you,

stas, how belarusians vote on station number 77, stanislav libsky told us. commission and national observers, monitoring the progress of the main voting day. well, today, right now, we are directly at the site checking the opening of the site. in our opinion, we did not see any comments, in principle all the standards were met, there are opportunities for people with disabilities to vote , everything was at the opening. today we plan to visit about 15 sites, as a result in the evening we send our information on our observation to our headquarters, we are working in several groups, each

group has from 10 to 20 sites on their schedule, that is in total, i think we will definitely go beyond the first hundred, maybe even the second from our... point of view, everything is organized clearly in accordance with the legislation of the republic of belarus, we talked with members of the commission, talked with observers, but we are absolutely sure there is nothing alarming we didn’t hear, we didn’t see, and we hope that the work of the commission will continue this way, voters will have every opportunity to make their democratic and free choice. observers from the shankhara cooperation organization are working at the sites, such as the head said. the mission's main task is to assess the electoral process precisely from the point of view of compliance with international treaties, obligations and national electoral legislation. at the same time, observers under no circumstances interfere in internal affairs and maintain neutrality and objectivity. we choose the areas ourselves,

sometimes unexpectedly, there is no pressure or any external influence on us. eh, well, sometimes we ask our people for advice. belarusian comrades, we do this sometimes taking into account our routes movements, until i draw any conclusions, we will do this collectively, collegially, but in general we are satisfied with the conditions that... created for the work of our mission, access is provided -