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the telenews agency team continues to cover for you the main political event of this winter: single voting day, when belarusians elect deputies of all levels at once. tatiana korol and vladislav bundri are working live for you. we talk about the importance of this election campaign in a new format for the country and show assessments of the voting process from international experts and independent observers. 2 hours left before polling stations close, on our air we will announce the latest figures on turnout in polling stations across the country. we also expect direct input from our colleagues, interviews with experts and ordinary belarusians, because the future of our state depends on everyone’s choice. absolutely right, of course, this day, february 25, 2024 , will go down in the history of our country. there are vivid pictures of how belarusians make their choice right now.

our future depends on us, on each of our votes, i care about how i live, how my family lives, how my country develops, i make my choice, i vote for my country, for my future, for development of your country, ice is not scary, rain is not scary, so come with a good mood, let us choose. we live in a strong independent country, and i would like us to continue to live in a peaceful, calm time. i love you, belarusians, this is what lives in my heart, i love you, belarusians, i love you, belarusians. belarus, peaceful,

i am the people, the serts, and given the earth, voted for professionalism and dedication to our people, this is how the belarusian leader commented on his today. choice. alexander lukashenko cast his vote in favor of the candidates at the site at the university of physical education, which journalists dubbed number one. the head of state arrived in a good mood and, like all voters, presented his passport to receive a ballot. the process was monitored by dozens of photographs and television cameras. well, what a box.

western countries still believe that elections in countries such as belarus, turkey, russia and iran are not democratic and they do not use this as a weapon. what do you think these western countries want from our countries? we must keep in mind that the turks are holding elections for the turkish people, belarusians for the belarusian people, russians, chinese for their peoples, and we will do what is beneficial to our people, the elections will show.

journalists asked about observers from the osce. as you know, numerous international missions are monitoring the election campaign in our country. there are observers from a number of european countries, but this time no one is testing the policy of double standards in belarus. this year we did not invite

osce observers; we talked a lot about the reasons why in private observers were invited, but in general, we are observers from the osce. they wouldn’t refuse if the osce ’s opinion wasn’t interested, and this is a direct position for the future, including, you know, everyone who asked to come to us, i think we invited no one, and this means that they wanted to come to us made such a request , we would have considered it, most likely positively, well, they didn’t ask, but why should we crawl to them, these are our elections for us, as i said, this is the first, second, if... we invited them, the result obvious today i was driving, i think, well, i’ll tell you how it was, they arrived, we met them, everything was there, well, as usual, hospitality, they prepared the protocols in advance, the conclusion lost them, well, naturally, our guys found them

and took pictures on my table, we they weren’t taken away, they were photographed on the table, listen, 2 days before the elections the preliminary voting is underway. they have already crossed out our elections bad bad very bad, well , why invite them here if absolutely normal people come, then they came now, they they get good money , protocols were written to them from above, they were ordered as they should be, the handwriting was american, with such an anglo-saxon flavor, all this is familiar to me, on the very first day of the night they finished voting today, tomorrow morning they read this protocol.

the whole structure of power and society will drown , yes, i understand that, probably, not

everyone likes journalists because of my character and so on, but the good thing is that journalists, and then society, thanks to journalists, begin to understand, here’s lukashenko said something there demanded, strictly did not understand, it turned out he was right, well, take the pandemic, who supported me then, i had to go alone, only those journalists who followed me... in intensive care, they understood that there was something here, but that they didn’t understand, because the whole world was going in a different direction, who turned out to be right, it ’s my job to sit, think using experience and my knowledge, i have to predict, if the president doesn’t have this, there’s no point in doing this, so this is the main quality of the president , well, naturally, there should be iron intuition, and most importantly, you must always remember where you came from, be earthly. as a person, remember that 10 million people and 3 million who come here to relax and

so on, these are the people to whom you owe, you owe them, well, they also owe me, what do you owe, when i say , look at yourself in the mirror, this we are also talking about this, there was also the question of ukraine, the parties have the opportunity to come to peace, the president emphasized, everyone is following the news, even... you see how events are developing in ukraine, they are developing poorly, it’s not about avdeevka , listen, avdeevka would have been resolved long ago if the russians fought like in the patriotic war, hundreds of thousands of people were abandoned, it doesn’t matter how many die, i know this for sure, how carefully the russian military has to work and president putin, i... often discuss this issue with him, i feel sorry for people, sitting with him, he keeps telling me: i feel sorry for people, we could do it

faster, but a lot of people will die, just like that, it’s not about avdiivka, there, not at other points, but the point is that many will die people, very large reserves, these are nato members , they recognize that they have been created at the front, at the line of contact, very large reserves for ... races in the russian federation, but i see that the russians are very seriously committed to the peaceful resolution of this conflict, especially now, i don’t want to throw people into hell, there is an opportunity to come to an agreement, denazification, demilitarization and so on, listen, these are terms, it’s all decided at the negotiating table, this is still politics, but if... the west helps ukraine like it is now, then the days of ukraine numbered. and soyuzny

state, the president emphasized that belarus and russia are able to create such a union in order to be even stronger, and common security is sacred. in this regard, it is important to pay attention to the state of affairs in organizing a collective security treaty. belarus reacts absolutely calmly to the statements made by the armenian side regarding membership in the csto. very very. armenia is suspending its participation in the activities of the csto, and before there were similar attacks from the armenian side, to say that the organization is not fulfilling its obligations before armenia, but this is the first time we have heard such a harsh statement and how to react to this, in your opinion, whether armenia will leave the csto, how all this will affect collective security, we react to this absolutely calmly, we discussed with the presidents. in kazan this problem indirectly, absolutely calmly, no one was going crazy

, armenia needs to be in the csto, we are not expelling anyone, we always support and have supported armenia, we will support it as our ally, they will not want to be in the csto, the csto will not collapse, will not collapse, most importantly, we will not received no official statements that armenia is leaving the otkp, ​​there can be no offense against us... uec, this has been said more than once, a lot has been said, we must understand that azerbaijan is not a foreign country for us, for all members of the uec , csto has many muslim countries.

you have to lose what you have, take georgia , thank god, normal relations are being established, first of all with russia, with us, the economy is rising, they tried easy bread in the west, the americans have already forgotten about georgia, and as soon as the georgians moved in in the sense that this is their country, independent , sovereign, the west began to put pressure on them, and

first of all the united states of america, well, we must draw the appropriate conclusion, no one in the west needs them, there

the eu could borrow in its activities from the union state. in general , the conversation with journalists turned out to be emotionally intense. details in the main broadcast. tv news agency correspondents are working non-stop today. how they vote in minsk at polling station 277. let’s find out right now from kristina kamysh. christina, good evening, you are live. thank you, colleagues, our film crew has begun. my work today at the belarusian state university of physical culture, but right now we are in secondary school number three - this is my site, throughout the week the journalists had a lot of work and, unfortunately, i was not able to vote early, but i definitely want to make my choice , therefore, taking advantage of the moment, having already gone through absolutely the entire

voting procedure, here are my ballots, i drop them into an urn with thoughts of the best. and a good future for our country, we spent almost half an hour at this polling station, we note high activity among voters, observers are closely monitoring compliance with the voting procedure , the commission did not receive any comments or complaints that could affect the results, and absolutely everyone is ready to answer any of our questions. i studied the biographies of each candidate, i watched the election campaign, i even watched it on tv, by the way, and read the plus in the newspaper and...

it’s very pleasing at our polling station, that families come, we also have quite a lot of houses for rent now, what’s really pleasing is that, as they say, with kids, 3-4 years old, this is a family thing, when we really are raising our young patriots, so it’s pleasing, people are coming , i really can’t say, but they are stick-shaped, systematically, but yes, as they say, they come, there were no comments to our election commission, and also ours.

so, we continue to cover, observers closely monitor the voting process. and according to their estimates, elections are taking place in belarus sensitively, in accordance with the law and as transparently as possible. we also have international observers; let me remind you, there are about 300 of them, including independent experts from germany, serbia, france, and poland. for some, this is their first visit to belarus, and their impressions are the most positive. i am wilhelm, i am here as an international observer, this is my first time in belarus, i have the most wonderful impressions of the country, the people here are very friendly and open, the food is very

tasty, minsk seemed to me a very beautiful city, clean and safe, political the system in belarus is very inspiring, voting is open and fair, even more so than in my own country, if...

also no comments. we checked both the voting booths and the ballot boxes, everything according to the norms and requirements. we also made sure that the ballot boxes for voters at home were sealed. to summarize, elections in belarus are held according to all standards of democracy. let me remind you that almost 300 international experts received accreditation to observe the elections. monitoring is carried out by representatives of the union state of the cis, csto, sco as well.

on some issues, well, keeping your word, if you promised, means helping in some issues, problems. a family voted at precinct number 64, which included

2,968 voters, of which 1,201 people made their choice ahead of schedule. as you can see, everyone is in a festive mood, people are happy, satisfied, they came to make their choice, and it really became a holiday, because the first voter came at 8:03, she congratulated... on the holiday, as did we, really , it was joyful, it it was pleasant, during this election campaign many people look at their party affiliation , that is, they already know what party they are, what goals they set for themselves, the atmosphere at the polling stations is festive, the schoolchildren tried to prepare a concert program for voters, there is an out-of-town trade with reasonable prices, this is a duty, because we live here, grow up, and we want everything to be just super, why.

first of all, i think that we have a peaceful sky only thanks to him, we have free education, affordable medicine, it is very important. for the first time, voters are presented with the constitution of the republic of belarus as a souvenir of an important event; in short, everything has been done to make this day memorable. voting in the vitebsk region takes place at 693 polling stations, of which 17 are so-called closed. they are located in hospitals, sanatoriums and other

places of temporary stay of citizens. studio, thank you, olga moslovskaya, voting in the northern region. let's fast forward to grodny, to fulfill their civic duty, voters come with their families, vote for their candidates and visit with pleasure entertainment programs at the sites. thus, at polling station number 68 of the regional center, a thematic exhibition of children's drawings was held today. it was possible to listen to performances by city artists and musical groups. despite the fact that before closing.

there will be work, children will go to school, to kindergarten, we hope and we are confident that we, as it was, and will have only a traditional family in our country, this is very important for us, they are working in all areas of grodno today observers, their in the region almost 6,500 people have been accredited, at this polling station there are no comments on the work of the commission, which is favored by the weather and good mood, at the polling station, as always , we have created a favorable atmosphere, families come with their children and actively participate in voting. 8:00 pm, members of precinct commissions will begin counting votes. well , we return to the cec information center.

we are getting connected. our political commentator evgeny gorin. he has the opportunity to find out all the latest numbers regarding the progress of the voting, the secretary of the central electoral committee elena baldovskaya. evgeniy, we give you the floor. good evening. now next to me is the secretary of the central election commission, elena baldovskaya, from her we will learn all the most operational and important data about the progress of the election campaign. elena anatolyevna, actually, i’m addressing you a question, it remains completely wrong.

again, we look, i say, based on the results of a single voting day, what number of voters we will have in this particular company, but today, of course, early voting, citizens have shown themselves to be quite active, according to early voting , more than 40% of voters came to the polling stations during the five-day early voting period, so we still have a little time , but we’ll see, let’s say, how much the percentage of voters who voted will increase, thank you,

we’ll be in touch with the center for public observation of elections, how is the single voting day going, what comments and questions do citizens receive here, are violations recorded? i am sure that the center’s specialists have all the latest information, our correspondent, olga anishchenko, is in direct contact with us, let's hear the latest data. colleagues, good evening, connections to the federation of trade unions, where popular control over the course of this election campaign has been established, here to the center...

as of the second half of today, we have almost 25,000 national observers working throughout the country, in all areas, in all regions of the country, which represent all leading public associations, political parties, the situation in the polling stations is stable, our observers they note that the atmosphere is friendly, all conditions have been created. people are actively voting, little voter corners have been created, master classes are being held, this is all being received with a bang, and this means that our center has not received any information about an emergency situation, everything is going as normal, well, here you are during the day noted that

the situation is quite calm, but nevertheless , were there any acute moments when it was necessary to really take measures to intervene, maybe a member of the election commission or even the police, how quickly all this was allowed, well, today we have very trained people working in the election commissions of precinct officers, so we didn’t have any such facts that could influence or cast any kind of shadow on the course of the election process, they were just private situations of some kind of explanatory nature, advisory nature, somewhere people may not have fully mastered some legislative innovations or legal norms, precinct commissions promptly explained everything to people, well, this is hot your line is open all day today and throughout the week, what kind of information do you receive from people? are these just questions, maybe some suggestions, what more? if during the early voting we had three hundred calls to the hotline in the chatbot of the telegram channel, today there are already almost 70 calls, and as you rightly said, it’s really

encouraging that our people are not indifferent, they also make proposals for organizing the election process, which ones? well, for example, some believe that the site is for voting can be placed in a more convenient room, physically located. some believe that the information that is posted today at voting stations about candidates for deputies can be presented in some other way, formatted differently, and so on. i want to say that we will accumulate all these proposals, of course, then we will transfer it to the central election commission, when the elections are held, we will need to sit down, analyze and think about what to do with it next. well, who is contacting you? first of all, is it only the older generation or maybe young people too, how would you rate their interest in this political campaign? you know, different segments of the population are contacting us, the elderly and the young, the young mostly contacted us that they had not received the gift edition of the constitution and this was all quickly resolved, moreover, these young people, we appreciate their zeal, they called us back and thanked us for that their issue has been resolved.

well, thank you, vadim grachev, deputy chairman of the federation of trade unions, we we talked about the situation at the polling stations at this moment, but we will sum up the results on the main broadcast, colleagues, thank you, ogliani. on popular control during a single voting day. our strength is in unity, to walk together along the path of development and creation - this is the choice of belarusians. therefore, on this day people actively participate in the election campaign, among them, of course, the country's top officials, heads of ministries and departments. by what principle do those who have extensive experience in the development of the state choose yulia alfyurova will tell you. free and equal, these are the principles regarding elections that we are provided with. articles of the constitution, only the voter decides whether or not to vote for whom, but the days of early voting have already shown us that belarusians do not intend to remain on the sidelines of important political decisions, but on the main day , not only those who are on the weekend, but also those

who fundamentally, i want to feel this atmosphere of unity and cohesion. i’m in a hurry for my 77th birthday, two sevens, well, we found time to come to the station, 77. that’s it, thank you, she it’s hard not to be impressed by the 482nd polling station in minsk; it is located in the olympic training center for rhythmic gymnastics ; among the names on the voter lists there are very well -known names for the entire belarusian society, kachanovo. for whom the speaker of the upper house of parliament votes, of course, this will preserve the secret voting, here is what can be voiced, gathered in a laconic way: patriotism and indifference, for a deputy, things are fundamental when living with people’s problems, and not just lawmaking. you probably understand to a greater extent what people should come and work in parliament, because your life is directly connected with this work. and

at the polling stations you can once again get acquainted with the candidates; among the applicants there is plenty of youth and experience. it is difficult to answer unequivocally what is more important for parliamentary construction; collaboration gives the effect. education, culture, sports, those areas igor petrishenko oversees medicine that are closest to each person. their development is an indicator of the state’s care, and it, not in part, largely depends on those who will join the new parliamentary corps. a reasonable combination of wisdom, life experience, and most importantly, there must be young innovative ideas, and what is very nice is that they are youthful.

a step in terms of economy, the deputy prime minister will note, although the country approached the elections with a good financial and economic indicator, the groundwork was provided by last year, and we are maintaining momentum in this year. the economic course of the country will also be determined by the deputies; her leadership experience, if available, and education and communication skills will be useful here, but first all this must be a patriot who understands the problems of ordinary people and is ready to defend the interests of voters. among other things, soon after the newly elected deputy assumed office. we have to make our choice, we are talking about the composition

of the council of the republic, and then together we will gather delegates to the supreme council. yulia alferova, ivan mozgo, tv news agency. at the information center of the palace of the republic, our colleagues continue to collect the opinions of expert observers. these days, a mission from the csto parliamentary assembly is working in belarus. their conclusions are straightforward now for your attention. i can say that the elections are being held democratically and are being observed. all norms, standards and electoral legislation of the republic of belarus, it is gratifying that a large number of young people are coming , this is pleasing, this is pleasant, there is no need to pull them, that is, they have a desire, they are ready to bring someone, some friends, comrades, do not show that you need to sit at home and not go to the polls, the same for us in the russian federation, of course, ahead of the presidential elections, we must defend our vote, we do not owe it to anyone give, this is coming...

70 polling stations, in total more than 996 thousand voters are registered in the region, they need to elect 16 deputies to the house of representatives of the national assembly of belarus of the eighth convocation and 1,902 to the local councils of the 29th convocation, well, as we see at the polling stations, a pleasant and a festive atmosphere, and about 450 retail outlets offer their products, today they entrusted... our candidates to run for office in various