BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

15/11/2006

Belarusian Opposition Fields Some 1,000 Candidates For Local Elections

The united democratic opposition has registered some 1,000 candidates through the signature-collecting procedure for local elections scheduled to take place on January 14, RFE/RL's Belarus Service and Belapan reported on November 14. Authorities refused to register several prominent leaders of opposition parties and independent trade unions as candidates, including United Civic Party Chairman Anatol Lyabedzka, United Civic Party Deputy Chairman Yaraslau Ramanchuk, and trade unionists Alyaksandr Bukhvostau and Henadz Fyadynich. Theoretically, Lyabedzka and Ramanchuk can still make the ballot if they are proposed by their party. JM

Source:

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2006/11/3-cee/cee-151106.asp