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The majority of Minsk dwellers participated in a poll (53%) are against lifting the constitutional limitation for one person to be the president of Belarus more than two terms consecutively. This opinion was expressed during a public opinion poll carried out by a sociological service “Zerkalo” of the informational agency “BelaPAN” in December 2003.

13% of the respondents from the 500 Minsk dwellers- voters hold the differing opinion. Every fifth citizen (20%) are indifferent whether this restriction for more than two terms in office would be removed or not. 14% of respondents could not define their attitude towards removal of this constitutional clause.

During the related poll of the sociological service “Zerkalo” carried out in March 2003 61% of respondents were against abrogation of this constitutional restriction, and 11% were for it. THe quantity of “indifferent” was 12%. Every sixth respondent (16%) last spring could not answer to this question definitely.