Elections to Council of Republic to be repeated for the first time

Elections to the Council of the Republic, the upper chamber of the National Assembly of Belarus, will be repeated for the first time after Father Fiodar Pouny has refused to run as a senate candidate.
Mikalai Lazavik, Secretary of the Central Elections Commission, told the European Radio for Belarus that a new date would be set to elect the missing senator, probably even this year.

This is the first case when one seat in the senate remains vacant. But Mikalai Lazavik does not see a huge problem here: 

"This is the first time, but the laws envisage this situtation. We will solve this problem in a calm and working way".