Lidia Yermoshina


Lidia Mikhailovna Yermoshina is a Belarusian politician. She has been a member of the Central Election Commission of Belarus since 1992, and Chairwoman since 1996. She is under international scrutiny for purportedly rigging elections in favor of incumbent Aleksandr Lukashenko.

Biography

Yermoshina was born in Slutsk, Minsk Voblast on 29 January 1953.
In 1975, she graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University. Beginning in 1975, she worked as a legal advisor until becoming an attorney's assistant in 1987. She became Chairwoman of the Judiciary of the City Executive Committee of Babruysk in 1988, a post she held until 1996.

Belarusian elections

She has been a member of the Central Election Commission of Belarus since 1992, and Chairwoman of organization since 1996. On 10 April 2006, following the 2006 presidential election in Belarus, she was placed on a list of over 40 members of the Belarusian government banned from entering the European Union and the United States for allegedly participating in the manipulation of the results of the presidential election; the ban was lifted in 2008.
On 15 December 2010, presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov logged a legal complaint application to the Central Election Commission of Belarus, demanding they remove Yermoshyna from her office as Chairperson of the Central Election Commission. He cited that her position was illegal, as Yermoshyna was a member of incumbent Aleksandr Lukashenko's political team, compromising her neutrality, and was under international scrutiny for purportedly rigging the previous election. The complaints was ineffective.

Personal life

Lidia Yermoshina has been divorced twice, and has a son who died at age 40 of unknown causes in June 2016.