Karpenko: constitutional referendum took place

Belarusians voted in favour of amendments and additions to the Constitution

At 02:15 on February 28th, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Belarus, Igor Karpenko, announced the preliminary results of the vote of citizens of Belarus at the referendum on the amendments and additions to the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus.

He declared, “The total number of citizens included in the voting lists was 6,815,667 people. 78.63 percent of them took part in the voting. Thus, the nationwide referendum was declared valid. 65.16 percent of the referendum participants from those included in the voting lists voted in favour of the constitutional amendments and additions. Meanwhile, 10.07 percent did not support proposals to change the Basic Law of the country.”

The Brest Region: 64.21 percent voted ‘for’ and 7.74 percent voted ‘against’;

The Vitebsk Region: 70.12 percent voted ‘for’ and 8.57 percent voted ‘against’;

The Gomel Region: 71.08 percent voted ‘for’ and 9.2 percent voted ‘against’;

The Grodno Region: 63.4 percent voted ‘for’ and 10.95 percent voted ‘against’;

The Minsk Region: 64.58 percent voted ‘for’ and 9.63 percent voted ‘against’;

The Mogilev Region: 71.69 percent voted ‘for’ and 10.4 percent voted ‘against’;

The city of Minsk: 55.13 percent voted ‘for’ and 13.23 percent voted ‘against’.

Igor Karpenko said that the CEC plans to hold a meeting of the Central Election Commission on March 3rd to sum up the final results of the referendum.