good day, you are watching the news, lyudmila kazak is with you live in this episode. the work of integration associations and a single voting day, the chairman of the board , the secretary general of the cis in the palace of independence. elections of deputies at all levels took place; we are waiting for preliminary results from the head of the central election commission live. farmers' protests in...

the government's goals are responding to demands with water cannons. fake online transaction a briton invested more than 36,000 rubles to scammers. the elections took place, the turnout on the single voting day of deputies to the house of representatives and local advice over 73%. the mogilev region was the most active, more than 77% of voters voted. these data were announced by the assembly center in the information. center, now press conferences and observer missions from the cis from the sco are expected here. in a small hall , the chairman of the central election commission answered questions from belarusian foreign journalists, now igor karpenko, a guest of our visiting studio, is ready to answer questions from our colleague svetlana lukenyuk. good afternoon, colleagues, good afternoon to all our tv viewers, yes, our mobile studio continues to work here in information center, i must say that in a couple of hours it will, in principle, officially close, but already. there is still time to talk about

the main thing. and yes, our guest, chairman of the central election commission, igor karpenko, igor vasilyevich. hello. good afternoon. we , of course, congratulate you, because a lot of work has been done. and how do you evaluate, let ’s say, maybe even this electoral premiere, a single voting day. well, i think we need to congratulate all our belarusian people, who have decided on their choice and formed deputies, deputy corps of local councils. and the deputy corps of our house of representatives of the national assembly of the republic of belarus, in general, we assess that the campaign took place smoothly, in accordance with our updated electoral legislation, and it was part of the great political modernization that began with the amendments and additions to the constitution that were adopted at republican referendum in the twenty-second year, so the body has been formed, we

still have to form an all-belarusian national assembly and hold presidential elections no later than july 20, 2019, and in this way we can say that with this we will be able to put an end to political modernization and seriously continue to engage in issues of strategic planning and the development of our country for the future.

candidates for deputies of local councils and candidates for deputies of parliament, they somehow interacted very closely within the district, and sometimes even united for some joint information and campaign events, joint pickets, joint meetings, joint public events of some kind, this was a fairly new phenomenon in our electoral system, and i think that probably...

the previous presidential elections, and i had such experience working in commissions, i in the sixth year, he renewed the city commission for the elections of the president of the republic of belarus in the tenth year in the city of minsk, here directly, i also remember well, they didn’t have time to close, which means the polling stations are already people protesting against the election results, that is, not yet results, and even the commissions are only there to cancel unused ballots, they haven’t even opened the ballot boxes yet, they haven’t even counted them yet.

preferences of certain categories of citizens, well, our sociological services conduct these surveys constantly, systematically conduct surveys, and in general this is the case for myself somewhere , even as a person in general, well, after all , who has a certain attitude towards politics ,

i’m tracking some things for myself, so i caught myself thinking that despite the fact that young people vote, and should have been in the first place turn to support the youth , she also expresses her opinions that... she still wants to see in the country’s parliament , first of all, people who have both life experience and professional experience, and have taken place in such important social roles as family man, citizen , a professional in his field, and these are, as a rule, people, well, 40-50 years old, it’s no coincidence that they say that the dawn of time for a politician is generally 50-60 years old, yes, but that is, young people, in principle, understand that... how it would be very important that their voice be heard somewhere, along with so they trust a certain experience, but this does not mean that this is experience, those deputies who came to parliament should not be working with young people, i think that today

this figure, that 77% of young citizens voting for the first time voted, means in these elections, we need to take this into account and seriously continue to work further with this... category on the same principle as we worked before the republican referendum, when we discussed constitutional innovations at dialogue platforms and then at dialogue platforms to discuss our.