Belarusian parliamentary elections will be open, transparent - Lukashenko
MINSK. July 16 (Interfax) - Belarusian leaders are interested in holding open and transparent parliamentary elections, said President Alexander Lukashenko.
"We want to hold the election openly, transparently, and worthily. And the main thing is for the elections to be legitimate. And that depends on how free the will expression will be," Lukashenko said at a meeting with CIS Executive Committee Chairman Sergei Lebedev in Minsk on Monday.
The country leaders held a number of meetings on the election campaign, "everyone received instructions, and bodies that will hold the elections have been formed," the president said.
"Candidate nomination has begun, which we have been doing very worthily, and we are inviting your mission for monitoring. We want it to be led by you because trust in you is high in Belarus, including among all institutes of power," Lukashenko told Lebedev.
"We are not hiding anything here, you know it," the Belarusian president said.