'Time to change bald tyres': Brest-based activists call to boycott presidential election-2015
Belsat TV filmed Brest-based activists who distrubuted leaflets calling for a boycott of the presidential election-2015.
The action was held near Yubileyny market on July 3, the Independence Day of Belarus. A group of activists (civil initiative ‘Boycott’) dropped more than 1,000 leaflets with the appeal: “Time to change bald tyres. Boycott-2015 ” off a multistoreyed building.
“What the regime has scheduled on October, 11 is not an election, but another fraud. That is why the only way out is to boycott this stinking business. For this purpose, we organised the action. A real election might be held in Belarus only after Lukashenka and his clique go away,” the activists told belsat.eu.
The slogan of former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau ‘Time to change bald tyres’ gained popularity during the 2010 presidential elections.
The presidential election is take place on October 11. The registration of nominating groups has already started. It should be finished no later than July 22. The collection of signatures will last from July 23 to August 21, and the registration of presidential candidates should be completed no later than 15 September.
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According to a survey of the Independent Institute of Socio-Economic and Political Studies, located in Lithuania, 71.1% of the respondents expressed their willingness to vote in the presidential election in 2015. The majority of respondents are in favor of Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
