OREANDA-NEWS. August 15, 2008. In the Gomel oblast the number of people nominated into polling station commissions for the elections to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus using applications stands at 6,031 (58.2% of the total).

All in all, there are 1,121 polling station commissions in the oblast with 10,363 people in them, including 3,031 representatives of labour collectives, 585 representatives of public organisations and 14 people representing political parties.

At present the oblast sees vigorous efforts put into nominating candidates both by labour collectives and initiative groups (53 initiative groups are registered in the oblast). The nomination of candidates will last till August 18 inclusive.

The elections to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly are scheduled for September 28, 2008.