Milinkevich Predicts “Revolution of Spirit” In Belarus 17:39, 01/12/2005
The democratic forces’ candidate for presidency in Belarus Alyaksandr Milinkevich is convinced that after the presidential elections in 2006 a “revolution of spirit” would take place in Belarus. Milinkevich told about that in his speech at the Kyiv Forum of Democratic Choice Commonwealth, the UNIAN informs. “We do not believe that the Belarusian regime would agree to hold fair and transparent elections, as ballots have not been counted here for a long time, and we promise that we would take people to the streets. We’ll have a revolution of spirit,” Milinkevich said.
As said by him, two problems exist in Belarus – a total fear and absence of objective information. “That’s why our strategy would be simple. We shall carry out a door-to-door campaign,” Milinkevich said.
The single opposition candidate fro presidency believes that the democratic forces of Belarus are forced to operate in severer conditions than in those post-Soviet countries where the change of power has taken place. “The dictatorship in Belarus is harsher than in other countries, and it can resort to extraordinary measures defending its authority,” he added.
On October 2 the Congress of Democratic Forces of Belarus in two round elected Alyaksandr Milinkevich a single oppositional candidate for presidency to run in the vote in 2006.
According to the Belarusian legislation, the presidential elections in Belarus are to take place not later than middle of July, 2006.
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