In the aftermath of the last year’s presidential elections in Belarus Alexander Lukashenko’s political rating sharply fell from 45% to 30,9%. These data were made public by the Independent institute of the social-economic and political research NISEPI upon the outcomes of the national April poll, which attracted to it 1464 respondents.
As you remember, the presidential elections took place in Belarus on September 9, 2001. According to the Central Electoral Committee’s data, 75% of the country’s inhabitants voted for the incumbent. Meantime, the data from the independent sociological bureaus states the opposite, namely that Lukashenko’s real pre-election rating equaled to 45%. NISEPI notes that the current 30,9% rating is the lowest of all in many years. By the way, the reduction occurred at all parameters. For instance, now only 32,4% of those polled trust Lukashenko, 26% believe him to be a role model politician, 14% would cast their votes for him at the hypothetical elections into the head of the Russia-Belarus union state. For the very first time in recent history Lukashenko faced increasingly growing resistance to his policy; while his opponents now outnumber his adherents.
NISEPI director Oleg Manaev, commenting on these data to journalists, called the rating’s fall “a collapse”. In his view there are two major reasons for this tendency. “The main reason is the deterioration of the country’s economic situation and the people’s financial welfare. More than 70% of Lukashenko’s opponents say it is so. Over 60% of them experienced salary and pension payment delays, whereas 35% said that there’s no way they can tolerate this anymore,” – underscored professor Manaev.
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