Regional, Minsk city executive committees prepare proposals on forming electoral circuits for elections to the House of Representatives, regional, Minsk City Council of Deputies.

District, city (in the cities of regional and district subordination), settlement, and rural executive committees prepare proposals on creation of electoral circuits for elections to district, city, settlement, rural Councils of Deputies.

District, city (in the cities of regional subordination) executive committees, local administrations in the cities create polling stations and district commissions for holding elections, referendum, voting on the recall of a deputy.

City (in the cities of district subordination), settlement, rural executive committees create city, settlement, rural territorial electoral commissions for elections of deputies of city, settlement, rural Councils of Deputies, city, settlement, rural commissions for referendum.

City, settlement, rural executive committees, local administrations, district executive committees in the cities and urban-type settlements where city and settlement executive committee are not created ensure recording of citizens and submit to precinct commissions list of the citizens registered on the territory of respective voting precincts and having the right to participate in elections, referendum, voting on the recall of a deputy.

            District, city, settlement, rural executive committees, local administrations:

1) organize provision to the commissions for elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, electoral commissions, commissions on referendum, commissions on holding the recall of a deputy of the premises for placing commissions and holding the voting, as well as of necessary equipment, communications, means of transportation;

2) create conditions for holding meetings of candidates for the President of the Republic of Belarus, for deputies with voters, ensure free provision to them premises for those purposes, as well as of necessary reference and informational materials; solve issues of providing premises for public discussion of issues (draft decisions) submitted for referendum;

3) allocate on the territory of voting precincts places for placement of agitation print materials;

4) determine places for holding by candidates for the President of the Republic of Belarus, for deputies, by their authorized persons of mass actions (gatherings out of premises, meetings, picketing) with a view to perform election propaganda.

District, city executive committees, local administration, as well as regional and the Minsk city executive committees validate, when citizens of the Republic of Belarus initiate a referendum, the signatures of citizens in the subscription lists of the referendum and take decisions on the results of gathering citizens’ signatures.

Presidiums of regional, Minsk City Councils of Deputies and regional, Minsk City executive committees:

1) create circuit electoral commissions for the elections to the House of Representatives, as well as in the regions – circuit electoral commissions for elections to a regional Council of Deputies and in the Minsk City – territorial electoral commissions exercising powers of circuit electoral commissions for elections to the Minsk City Council of Deputies in the districts of the city of Minsk;

2) create regional, Minsk City territorial commissions for elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, for elections to the House of Representatives, for elections to local Councils of Deputies, regional, Minsk City commissions on referendum, as well as circuit commissions on holding the voting on the recall of a deputy of the House of Representatives, deputy of a regional Council of Deputies;

3) call sittings of deputies of local Councils of Deputies of basic level of the region, of deputies of the Minsk City Council of Deputies for elections and recall of the members of the Council of the Republic.

Presidiums of district, city Councils of Deputies and district, city (in the cities of regional subordination) executive committees create district, city territorial commissions for elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, for elections to local Councils of Deputies, as well as to district, city commissions for referendum.

Presidiums of city Councils of Deputies and city executive committees in the cities with district division create district in the cities commissions for elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, for referendum.

Presidiums of the Minsk City, district, city (in the cities of regional subordination) Councils of Deputies and respective executive committees propose candidates for members of the Council of the Republic, as well as initiate (except for the presidium of the Minsk City Council of Deputies and the Minsk City executive committee) the commencement of issue on recall of a member of the Council of the Republic.

Local Councils of Deputies establish the number of electoral circuits to be created and average number of voters for an electoral circuit for elections to the respective local Council of Deputies, appoint respectively regional, district, city, district in the cities, settlement, rural referendums, as well as the elections of deputies instead of the retired.

The chairperson or the presidium of a local Council of Deputies:

1) calls assemblies of voters on initiating and raising the issue on the recall of a deputy;

2) organizes inspection of authenticity of signatures of voters on subscription lists in favor of the preposition on raising the issue on the recall of a deputy and draws up the protocol on the results of signatures’ gathering.

Local executive and administrative, as well as representative bodies also exercise other power provided for by this Code and by other acts of legislation of the Republic of Belarus on elections, referendum and recall of a deputy.