Lukashenko’s No Longer Supported by Voters Says Hans-Georg Wieck 11:10, 03/01/2002
“Real outcomes of the presidential elections give us all hope for the possible democratic elections in Belarus,” - said in an interview to the Austrian newspaper “Die Presse” Hans-Georg Wieck, whose mandate as that of the head of the OSCE Advisory-Monitoring Group in Belarus expired on December 31. Although officially it had been announced that only around 15% of the electorate voted for the unique candidate from wide public coalition Vladimir Goncharik, the independent polls estimate the true outcomes as 30-40% for Goncharik, writes “Die Presse”. According to Wieck, Alexander Lukashenko enjoys insignificant support among the voters.
Over the recent years Belarus saw a serious development of the civil society, assumes Wieck. “The elections showed that the society is split up and we cannot lose half of those people, who wish to live in a democratic state,” – said he in an interview to “Die Presse”.
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