the Belarusian CEC conducted a thorough “weeding” of the opposition raised beds. After verification of the signatures in question participated in the elections, second in popularity to rival Lukashenko after Victor Babariko – Valery Tsepkalo. It took only 75 249 signatures in the required 100 thousand. Babariko now held in the KGB detention center, will be able to continue the fight for the presidency. CEC 165 744 cast for his signatures.
Over a hundred thousand signatures have collected, and Svetlana Tikhanovski, wife of the arrested blogger Sergei Tikhanovski, the author of “revolution of Slippers” and the slogan “Stop the cockroach”. Participation in pre-election race yet to be able to continue six candidates, including Lukashenko himself. The number of signatures he collected, certainly, in the first place, but the second – the political prisoners Victor Babariko.
“What kind of biography do our redhead!” exclaimed Anna Akhmatova, when she learned that the young poet Joseph Brodsky was convicted for parasitism. It is time to shout and supporters of Babariko. Because thanks to the efforts of scientists from the Belarusian KGB opposition candidate completely changed her image.
It is not more representative of the social group of “bankers and capitalists” (that is, in the view of the majority, “bloodsuckers”), and a political prisoner and a victim of repression. Of course, to win an election while behind bars, he will be not just difficult but practically impossible. The fact was, the calculation, when it was decided to leave in the candidate list. However, the fate of a political prisoner, as history shows, there can be very different. For example, the black leader of South Africa Nelson Mandela prison cell has helped to gain worldwide fame and opened the way to the presidency.
Not yet wants to give up and “filtered” Valery Tsepkalo.
No refusal to register yet. – said the “MK” head of the election headquarters Tsepkalo Andrew Lankin. – The final CEC decision is not yet adopted. Just on its website published information about the number of accepted signatures. We collected about 220 thousand signatures. In the territorial electoral Commission passed 160 thousand. According to information on the CEC website, about 75 thousand are accepted as reliable. Information on the number of false yet. We are now preparing an appeal to the regional commissions and Minsk with a request to furnish certificates of verification of signature sheets.
But if someone from candidates of signatures is significantly reduced, then the other, on the contrary, increased. The zero-sum game. At the headquarters of presidential candidate Sergei Cereceda (Chairman of the party “Belarusian social-democratic Gramada”) report that they handed over to territorial election commissions about 106 thousand signatures. And the CEC has registered 143 thousand! Where did the extra 37 of them.h signatures, what people? CEC did not specify. Maybe these lists should look for the missing signature Tsepkalo? The details of the story from nowhere out of thin air by the signatures read our article “Pets Lukashenko.”
But the most strange is the person Sergey Cerecer. Strange one candidate. Well drew you in excess of 37 thousand signatures, so just sit in silence and be happy. Here’s another contender, Anna Konopacka. When submitting documents she said she was able to gather “a little more than 110 thousand signatures”, and the CEC recognized the validity of 146 thousand. But Konopacka did not complain of this outrage, but managed to wriggle out, saying that 110 thousand signatures, which she said before, it is only those who have been put “personally”. And in fact raised more.
we are All after shopping in the supermarket usually check the receipts. And if we notice that we have counted extra, I appeal to the store Manager. But in this case, if the cashier made a mistake in favor of their outlets. But if he made a mistake in our favor and the amount of the check less the cost of our purchases? Tell me, hand on heart: how many people in this case would require a recalculation? So Anna Konopacka demands nothing, but quietly happy.
But if the psychology of the buyers of the supermarket, everything is clear, the motivation of the cashier is not completely understood. After all, if we were to cheat, then this should be done imperceptibly. Otherwise, such shenanigans for the customer not good, but only harm. And that these high technologies, the Belarusian Central election Commission have, no doubt.
In this regard, recall the rose revolution in Georgia, which I watched with my own eyes. For many years election, which was won by Shevardnadze and his party, in Georgia falsified, but so skillfully that this standing ovation to all international observers. And suddenly in the fall of 2003 to the polls to vote for the party Shevardnadze gathered all the dead from the surrounding cemeteries. Well met: actual dead bodies on the sites, of course, was not. But they were in the voter lists. There were so many, that this fact is noticed by all observers. It was later revealed that the lists were organizations affiliated with the leaders of the revolution: Zhvania and Saakashvili. They are specially made so that all electoral fraud was evident.
We already wrote that Babariko and Tsepkalo considered candidates from the Belarusian “elite”. Therefore, the question of “moles” inside the elite, who can really “merge” Lukashenko is a controversial. Someone in the CEC is clearly working to make tampering obvious and there was a pretext for non-recognition of the election results. Lukashenko is nervous and started making mistakes. But the opposition, which already in jail or are preparing for landing, that does not help.
help-MK: List of presidential candidates with the number of registered signatures:
Alexander Lukashenko — 1 939 572
Victor Babariko — 165 744
Anna Konopacka — 146 588
Sergei Carecen — 143 109
Andrey Dmitriev — 106 841
Svetlana Tikhanovski — 104 757
