Second by-election round fills all 11 vacancies in House of Representatives

2001-04-02 10:50:00

Minsk, 2 April. The second round of Belarus' parliamentary by-elections on April 1 filled the remaining 11 vacancies in the House of Representatives (the lower house of the Belarusian National Assembly), the central electoral commission has said. The winners include Vladimir Yegorov, former chief of Belarus' Committee for State Security (KGB); garment factory director Svetlana Gil of Brest, Valentina Kachan, chief health officer of the Brest region; Vladimir Zenevich, a health administrator in Baranovichi, Brest region; Nikolai Sergiyenko, Baranovichi's civil defense chief; ex-Representative Valery Aleksandrov of Vitebsk; Sergei Semashko, a railroad official in Vitebsk; Gleb Ivanov, first deputy chief of the Vitebsk Regional Committee of Financial Investigations; Aleksandr Gudkov of the Belarusian Association of Afghan War Veterans; army officer Viktor Guminsky of Borisov, Minsk region; businessman Andrei Nareiko of Minsk. The central electoral commission reports an average voter turnout of 55.07 percent, ranging from 62 percent in Brest's Tsentralny (Central) voting district to 40.1 percent in Minsk's Kalinovsky district.