mutaty, but there is a party list that the parties are already forming after they simply vote for it in our country, e , the majoritarian electoral system is still preserved, that is, nothing has changed in this regard. that is, all deputies will be elected in one mandate e districts, which means that for this e will not just be a competition. there party programs. it is also necessary that the candidate, the potential candidate for deputies, be recognizable by the anatolian territory. uh, either in one or the other constituency depending on the candidate. which deputies the neighbor puts forward that if this is a deputy of parliament, then approximately the district is somewhere in the population there, let it be somewhere around 60 m, 560,000 people represent it, yes, if it is the regional council there is a little less number of years. uh, the village council, there is even less number and so on of this electoral constituency. elections according to party lists are held in a proportional system, when the number of deputy mandates. divided by

the proportion of votes cast, so uh, and that's how it's called, but uh, let's say that. there is another system - this is a mixed system. when you speak correctly when the proportional system is sometimes used. uh, that is, u part of the mandates is given for proportionally to the votes cast. e parties on party lists, and part is given by single-mandate votes. here the russian federation has returned to this mixed system . eh, here, she works in this vein. we are still working in the majority system. i understand that to change it there, in principle, at the moment. well, not yet anyway. because the electoral legislation was changed, means the fourth of march of this year. it has entered into force and we are actually already working today with those innovations that were introduced ready-made methodological recommendations, prepared calendar plans, approximately. conducting the entire

election campaign until the start of the election campaign before the start, which will be given by a decree of the head of state. today we also discussed this topic. we want it to be signed a little earlier so that we can give more time for all these, uh, democratic procedures for nomination to commissions, ah, but uh, before the start of this official start. we are already entering the active phase. uh, electoral action first. before the first of september we shall have to determine, uh, the number of voters, including in the context of the election circles. uh, in addition, we will have to determine the number of potential local councils, and besides this, before october 1st. we will have to determine constituencies for the election of deputies to the house of representatives and before the first of november it was necessary to determine e, so this is how the circle for the election of deputies of local soviets and it is already known when it will be. probably for people

, the most interesting period of the electronic campaign is campaigning . to a certain extent. e goes, i would say such hidden agitation, because he somehow positions himself as a candidate. in this regard. we also changed the legislation and allowed the moment of registration of the group by nomination for the collection of signatures for the nomination of candidates deputies. allow me to open funds, election funds and use the funds of the fund for this campaign to collect signatures in this way for advertising. well, yes, well , somehow. you have to understand, otherwise you look collects signatures, there is a poster hanging on the stand. she what funds should be made if the fund has not yet been created, yes, it turns out, and so on. therefore, these are the questions. we also settled in the legislation. e. well, the active phase, of course, will be already in january. this means that by january 25 we will have

to form precinct commissions, by the way, potential candidates, and by analogy with the presidential elections, they will be able to nominate a member of the commission to their district commission. uh, with the right of an advisory vote in the elections of deputies of the house of representatives, that is, here you are elected as a candidate for deputies. you can represent it in circles and transparency quite right. the topic of international observers is the status of international observers, whom will we invite or who is ready to come? i understand what it is surely there will be a cis sco. i reported today to the president that the dump is planning to invite chairmen of the central election commissions, and of the countries of the cis with which we work within the framework of the advisory council of the electoral bodies of the cis and within the framework of bilateral relations and so on . of course, we would like to invite

representatives of the international association of organizers, e founders, which include the republic of belarus. there are 109 countries of the world chairing now e in this organization in central electoral commission of the republic of south africa and here we are, uh, ready , were you ready to invite this, well, we are bound by certain international obligations. well, inviting parliamentary structures, as a rule, lies within the competence of both chambers of parliament, and international organizations in which the republic of belarus operates, except for the cis, are , of course, within the competence of the president and the government and the ministry of foreign affairs. we agreed today with the head of state that the ministry of foreign affairs. today more define, uh, uh, a unified approach for all actors. uh, at the invitation of international observers, i can say frankly that there will be international observers. that is, again, we are not, whom we are not closing. please, if you are ready to have a normal

conversation with us, then probably come, well , of course, if someone imposes sanctions against us, and at the same time, uh, well, this is probably illogical from the point of view. here are some diplomatic relations. you said so. igor vasilievich the last question, but this one more. hmm, he will discuss with you. yes many moreover, in western countries they are talking, uh, everything, more about the need to somehow change the suffrage in general, that is, some conservatives in france say that, for example, specific people should elect the president. well, as in america, for example, electors, yes, that is, non-suffrage should not be comprehensive for everyone in the same america, they have repeatedly said that they want to raise the age to vote for 21. that is, we also said that everything can be transferred. all powers can be transferred to others from to your sight. eh, is it really something that is needed or is it? setting the right to vote for

every adult belarusian is something that we should not touch and change to organize work in accordance with applicable law. organize the work of the commission system and all electoral subjects that participate in the process of organization, and elections, so there is such a point of view, maybe, but i can emphasize that our current legislation has passed it. uh, we conducted an examination of e for compliance with it conventions. e, which was adopted by all cis countries and that's the ratified order of the convention on the standards of democratic elections of legitimate rights. uh, citizens in the cis countries by the way, this is a convention. e, on the basis of which the observer mission from the cis conducts the observation. it passed the export assessment of the venice constitutional commission and received a positive conclusion in the osce structures, so i can say that the legislation today is no different

from any democratic canons from the legislation of many other countries we, we listen to the opinion of international observers. we are interested somewhere in their opposition in order to further improve their system, because any system requires improvement. it develops depending on under what conditions does it operate? in which country , uh, in what u external factors, and it is exposed to certain and so on from here, and you and the concept of rectory sovereignty, which was incorporated in the concept of national security of the republic, belarus, which is now undergoing discussion, as an inalienable right of a sovereign state, independently without any influence from the outside, to make solid decisions. that is, we are ready to listen to the assessments of our elections, but we are not acceptable to our elections by any means, including informational or psychological pressure. uh, tried to intervene and give some guidance to the subjects that

participate in the election campaign, we hope that this is right in the future. we 'll stand by too. well, in any case , the legislation today allows us to do this. do. thank you very much for the conversations. this is an understandable policy. hello, last year broke the world record for total military spending. they have been growing for 8 years in a row and spending on weapons has exceeded $2.2 trillion, the united states has already become the leader of the rating out of habit

, accounting for a little less than half of almost 900 billion. problems of the world, many figures today from them are military competitions only of the countries of the central and western europe exceeded 340 billion dollars and for the first time set the bar in 1989, when the cold war ended. and even if they wanted to start on the other side, washington would not be able to think about adding a rocket or a machine gun to the flag, because last year the country's economy under the heading of war over the past year, spending has grown by 10%, this is $ 88 billion, almost the entire budget of the russian defense industry. the white house has officially stated that such injections into the military commissar are a reaction to assistance to ukraine, after all over the past year, washington spent $75 billion on kiev, however, where most of the money actually went is still unclear, and the republicans accuse the democrats of stealing these funds

13,000 grenade launchers and 8,500 anti-tank systems. javelin 2,000 drones, about a hundred bradley armored vehicles, and finally, in the future, 31 abrams tanks, all this is washington for ukraine in just one year. we didn't count the ammo, and 20 haimars installations are such generous gifts, not at all free. we'll have to give the land, and whose sovereignty and so it remains a little now, a year after the start of the conflict in ukraine, biden's strategy. cleared up clearly in just 15 months, his military assistance to ukraine switched from helmets to uniforms to the level of f-16 bomber fighters. and he's not going to stop. however, the problem is that this military aid is always not enough for victory, but always just enough to keep hostilities going. the potential gold rush to rebuild post-war

ukraine is an interesting addition to biden's strategy of war to the last ukrainian, the more destroyed in this country, the more needs to be restored, which will give more money to american companies cunning enough to wait at the trough until the murder in ukraine subsides, that is, once again we note the destruction of ukraine and make money on it, and then restore it. the ruins also fill the pockets of nothing new in washington in the pursuit of specie, even if it is and we are the blood of an entire nation. an interesting moment on december 8, 2022 at the embassy of ukraine in in washington, the village of sana makarova invited the heads of the largest us military corporations rayton locket martin and others to dinner . invitation to ukrainian diplomats

should probably think hard about how they look when throwing parties with defense contractors who are called in this terrible war, noted the scientific in an interview with vox, an employee of the carnegie foundation, mat, the american bulls have undoubtedly already earned gigantic money and will still earn it. now, if you take all the plans that they are building, there are tens of billions of profits, not income , but net profit, because they made money on these deliveries, but since they dumped old rubbish on ukraine, replenishment of supplies is required, then they forced europe to send again, they demand their equipment and other military property to ukraine , as nato leaders, to maintain military capacity stagnant, even its gain. here. naturally , the services of the us military-industrial complex are offered, but in general, the overall growth of the army and combat readiness requires new volumes. so the scale of e, money earned on the blood

is huge. speaking of the united states, we deliberately left nato out of brackets, because it’s also about western europe, here they are also arming to the teeth over the past year, spending increased by 13% , it turned out to be almost half a trillion dollars, but in the absolute leaders in spending, finland , the military wallet became heavier by 36% due to joining nato, lithuania began to spend more by a quarter of almost $2 billion and, of course, poland plus 11 points or $27 billion, by the way, the poles, what is called overdone when the us demanded to spend 2% of gdp on defense , warsaw set its sights on as many as four, but we will show this in more detail later, the standard nato 2% of gdp for the military budget sounds like a recommendation at the july summit in vilnius , they plan to make the figures mandatory for members of the alliance because, like stoltenberg, he is dissatisfied with budgets growing too slowly and

only eight countries have reached the spending bar openly irritated tomodal. washington, from the point of view of the united states, 2% should be the lower limit, not the upper limit. we have been providing military support to ukraine since the beginning of the war. this led to the fact that the nato countries began to reduce their own stockpiles of weapons, these gaps need to be filled, i would like to add, in order to provide american corporations with orders for years, the forward leader is the united states, which produces more weapons and which sells it to nato partners in many ways an increase in defense funds means both times the increase in spending on the purchase of weapons from washington to support the security guarantees offered by the americans. in addition, countries have different amounts of resources and capabilities. they differ in some states that they believe that they should not be drawn into some kind of military confrontation issues. for this reason. they are not

required to increase spending, on the contrary, let's take open figures for 2018. what is nato in europe 17 military bases 28 headquarters, six naval bases 14 military depots and 51 air bases here 12 tank brigades and four multinational battalion and since then these numbers have increased by about 20%. and now rewind and count against such a background, lukashenka's words immediately come to mind, and the movement near our borders is greater than the recent entry into the alliance of finland and the impending entry into sweden. we once again witnessed the expansion of the north atlantic bloc. this kind of action puts the world on a very dangerous brink of global conflict. well, everything i said is justified by the parties. western intervention of russia's aggression in ukraine and so on, but what does

a special military operation have to do with or what does an entry have to do with it? in finland, in nato, in connection with a special military operation , absolutely no waiting for the moment decided that this moment had come. i think that neither russia nor belarus will do much harm. still, those political decisions would not be made in the same finland by the people, they are not stupid there and you know what war is at the summit in madrid in june 22, the alliance decided to increase the number of rapid reaction forces from 40 to 300,000 people. in addition, two additional squadrons of f-35 aircraft will be deployed in romania in england. and poland will receive a permanent staff of the fifth army corps. the united states implemented all these plans in about 4 months. and now large-scale exercises are being carried out, including within the borders of our country. here is an example of

anaconda maneuvers. poland has a stronger shield, two in lithuania , a softer response in estonia and finally. air defender in germany the skies of germany will be filled with aircraft for almost 2 weeks, and the exercise, among other things, should demonstrate the strength of the alliance, they will be held with the participation of four airbases in germany and two in the netherlands and the czech republic, exercise areas will be closed to civilian air traffic , forcing airlines to reroute traffic , air national guard director gen michael michael said the exercise will aim to complement the permanent us presence in europe, he said, adding that many alliance pilots will be working together for the first time. well, also fresh and on the topic of the national assembly. the lower house of the french parliament passed the largest military budget in the history of the country at 413 billion euros for from 2024 to 2030

, defense spending on the european continent increased more than in any other year last year. in which region of the world, and this is what the top three in terms of military budgets look like, caution from such figures, your head can spin european peace foundation. you heard me, it has become the main eu extrabudgetary instrument for financing external actions, military and defense nature in terms of 2 billion euros to reimburse those who supplied ukraine with weapons the size of the fund. as you understand, it is also systematically growing ; an increase by another 3.5 billion is being worked out to support the military by the eu mission and help third countries. the european commission also adopted an act in support of the production of munitions.