Independent observers will monitor Belarus' presidential elections, said the head of Coordination Council for Monitoring Elections mechislau Grib. Observers will work within the frames of the current legislation, and if authorities impede with their activities, the elections won't be recognised as legitimate by the international community, Grib added.
Authorities are scared of independent observers.
Mr. Grib denies these allegations. He says his observers will work on volunteer basis. If authorities don't let independent observers come to the polling stations and take part in the work of election committees, elections will turn into pure farce, and all the money spent on elections will go down the drain, because its results won't be recognized by the international community, Grib thinks.