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FIVE WANT TO RUN AGAINST INCUMBENT IN BELARUS'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Radio Free Europe ^ | Monday, 19 December 2005

Posted on 12/19/2005 2:16:41 PM PST by Grzegorz 246

Following last week's scheduling of a presidential vote for 19 March 2006 (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 16 December 2005), the Central Election Commission said it will register nomination groups to collect signatures in support of presidential candidates until 23 December, Belapan reported. To get on the ballot, a presidential contender needs to collect at least 100,000 voter signatures. Apart from democratic opposition candidate Alyaksandr Milinkevich, who was selected in October to challenge President Alyaksandr Lukashenka (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 3 October 2005), four more aspirants have signaled their intention to run. They are lawmaker Syarhey Haydukevich, leader of the Belarusian Liberal Democratic Party; Alyaksandr Kazulin, leader of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada); former Foreign Minister Pyotr Krauchanka; and Zyanon Paznyak, exiled leader of the Conservative Christian Party. The 61-year-old Paznyak has been living abroad since 1996, when he fled the country for fear of being jailed. JM


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: belarus; belaruselection; lukashenka; milinkevich

1 posted on 12/19/2005 2:16:41 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
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2 posted on 12/19/2005 2:17:26 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: Grzegorz 246

Gee, where are all those reeeel conservatives telling us how much better off Belarus is with its current Putin-loving strongman and how those Soros-backed Orange revolutionary crooks are conning the west yet again, blah, blah, blah...?


3 posted on 12/19/2005 3:43:19 PM PST by dr_who_2
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To: dr_who_2

So you are for Soros using East Europe to manipulate markets for financial gain whilst turning east europe nations into mini soviet union athiest socialist states?


4 posted on 12/19/2005 5:33:36 PM PST by x5452
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To: dr_who_2

Think Soros is sitting Belarus out?
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/regions/russia


5 posted on 12/19/2005 5:35:27 PM PST by x5452
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To: x5452
How did you guess? I post on Free Republic all the time! It's part of my devious plan to bring about discord, destroy the republic, and restore the evil empire!

But it's Darth Soros to you, thank you very much.

Seriously. Soros may be an arrogant jerk and his machinations mostly misguided, but I don't think all of the schemeing he's done in the background has been all bad. Not that I trust him any more than I would trust old Putty Put, who can't handle having a political opposition.
6 posted on 12/19/2005 7:23:44 PM PST by dr_who_2
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To: dr_who_2

The man is an international criminal manipulating markets and using the proceeds to set up psudo-soviet socialist athiest regimes which he controls.

http://india.indymedia.org/en/2003/08/6397.shtml


7 posted on 12/19/2005 8:41:02 PM PST by x5452
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To: x5452
What's your point ? You preffer Luka ?
8 posted on 12/19/2005 11:02:43 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: Grzegorz 246

I thought everyone had agreed to get behind Milinkevich. Obviously I was wrong.


9 posted on 12/19/2005 11:19:17 PM PST by Heatseeker (Never underestimate the left's tendency to underestimate us.)
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To: Heatseeker

Wait until Gar from Vietnam and the other one start their campaign.


10 posted on 12/19/2005 11:33:27 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: Grzegorz 246

Who is he?


11 posted on 12/20/2005 2:05:34 AM PST by Heatseeker (Never underestimate the left's tendency to underestimate us.)
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To: dr_who_2

But Putin is a real Christian, didn't you know that ? :(


12 posted on 12/20/2005 1:24:14 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: Grzegorz 246

Jimmy Carter is a real Christian, didn't you know that? :)


13 posted on 12/20/2005 4:10:14 PM PST by dr_who_2
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To: x5452

Right. Thanks for telling me. Will advise.


14 posted on 12/20/2005 4:11:18 PM PST by dr_who_2
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