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Constitution: referendum of 27 November 1996 (declared illegitimate by the international community) adopted a new
constitution massing power in the hands of the president; signed into law on 28 November 1996
Legal system: based on civil law system
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
Executive branch:
chief of state: President Aleksandr LUKASHENKO (since 20 July 1994)
head of government: Prime Minister Sergey LING (acting since NA November 1996, confirmed NA February 1997); First
Deputy Prime Minister Pyotr PROKOPOVICH (since NA); Deputy Prime Ministers Vladimir GARKUN (since NA), Valeriy
KOKAREV (since NA), Vladimir RUSAKEVICH (since NA), Vasyl DALGALYOV (since NA)
cabinet: Council of Ministers
elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; election last held 24 June and 10 July 1994 (next to be held
NA 2001 because of the additional two years provided by the November 1996 referendum); prime minister appointed by the
president
election results: Aleksandr LUKASHENKO elected president; percent of vote - Aleksandr LUKASHENKO 85%,
Vyacheslav KEBICH 15%
note: first presidential elections took place in June-July 1994
Legislative branch: bicameral Parliament established by the 28 November Constitution consists of the Council of the
Republic (64 seats; the president appoints 8 and each oblast plus the Minsk city government elect 8) and the Chamber of
Representatives (110 seats; note - present members came from the defunct Supreme Soviet)
elections: last held May and November-December 1995 (two rounds, each with a run-off; next to be held NA 2000)
election results : percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - KPB 42, Agrarian 33, CAB 9, Party of People's Concord
8, UPNAZ 2, SDPB 2, BPR 1, Green Party 1, Republican Party of Labor and Justice 1, BSP 1, NFB 1, Social and Sports
Party 1, Ecological Party 1, independents 95, vacant 62; note - after the November 1996 referendum, seats for the Chamber
of Representatives were filled by former Supreme Soviet members as follows: PKB 24, Agrarian 14, Party of Peoples
Concord 5, LDPB 1, UPNAZ 1, Green World Party 1, Belarusian Social Sports Party 1, Ecological Party 1, Republican
Party of Labor and Justice 1, independents 60; 58 of the 64 seats in the Council of the Republic have been appointed/elected
Judicial branch: Supreme Court, judges are appointed by the president; Constitutional Court, half of the judges appointed by
the president and half appointed by the Chamber of
- Belarus
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