In an official statement, the group said candidates did not have equal access to the media, and that the process of registering candidates to run was flawed, so some were not allowed on the ballot.
Ahead of the vote, Human Rights Watch, based in New York, said the government had stifled and harassed the country's political opposition, denying it equal access to the media and imposing serious constraints on international observers.
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Those reforms include a longer campaign period before polling day, equal access to the media for all parties, and accurate voter lists.
On this topic Rawls is adamant: unless there is public funding of elections, restrictions on campaign contributions, and substantially equal access to the media, politics will be captured by concentrations of private economic power, making it impossible for equally-able citizens to have equal opportunities to influence politics regardless of their class.
The report detailed irregularities in Peru's system to compute vote tallies, a lack of candidates' equal access to the mass media, the use of public resources for political gain and improper investigations into various complaints.
Its report contained 22 proposals, including steps to ensure that the electoral rolls list only legitimate voters, that political candidates have equal access to the news media and that the Election Commission function independently of partisan politics.
The reforms give equal financing and equal access to the state news media to all political parties.
The document calls on Mr. Lukashenko to form electoral commissions with participation of all registered parties and to grant equal access to the state-run media.
Peru must establish an autonomous electoral authority to oversee the process, grant its judiciary independence and provide competing political factions with equal access to the nation's media.
