BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

29/12/2005

Minsk: Eight want to register for Belarus's presidential ballot

Eight applicants filed requests with Belarus's Central Election Commission by the 23 December deadline to register their nomination groups for the 19 March 2006 presidential election, Belarusian media reported on 23 December. A nomination group, if registered, will have to collect no fewer than 100,000 voter signatures from 29 December to 27 January in order to place its candidate on the ballot. The presidential applicants are: incumbent President Alyaksandr Lukashenka; Alyaksandr Milinkevich, a candidate proposed by the democratic opposition; Alyaksandr Kazulin, leader of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada); Valery Fralou, a member of the Chamber of Representatives in 2000-04; Zyanon Paznyak, self-exiled leader of the Conservative Christian Party; Syarhey Haydukevich, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party; Syarhey Skrabets, a former opposition lawmaker currently held in pretrial detention; and Alyaksandr Vaytovich, a former chairman of the upper house and former president of the National Academy of Sciences. The Central Election Commission is expected to decide on the registration of presidential nomination groups on 27 December. JM // Copyright (c) 2005. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. RFE/RL

Source:

http://politicom.moldova.org/stiri/eng/7717/

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