Jokes stem from truth: Goat and election in Belarus (photoreport)


Belarusian photographer Alyaksei Stalyarou has published a joky report showing the particularities of the voting process in the Belarusian village.

It would have been an ordinary election if a local goat had not intervened.

The animal was determined to win.

Only a long chain prevented the goat from undermining the election in the entire village.

Risking their health (and clothes), election commission members who were carrying a ballot box did make their way. In Belarus, the commissions are insomuch eager to secure voter turnout that they always come to the places of those who failed to show up and cast their ballots.

The Central Election Commission has not yet commented on the incident 🙂

On September 11, the 2016 parliamentary election took place in Belarus. Two opposition candidates  – Alena Anisim (Belarusian Language Society) and Hanna Kanapatskaya (UCPB) – got into the lower chamber of Belarus’ National Assembly.

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Phot. stolyarovphoto.com

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