Belarusian President's Rating Hits Record Low

Belarusian President's Rating Hits Record Low

The Belarusian Review, April 21, 2003

A Journal for Western Man-- Issue XXVIII-- December 15, 2004

The Independent Institute for Socioeconomic and Political Studies announced that just 26.2 percent of respondents in a March-April poll said they would vote for President Alyaksandr Lukashenko, marking a record low by the agency's reckoning, Belapan reported on 21 April. Of the nearly 1,500 Belarusians polled, 23.2 percent said Lukashenko rules the country well enough to be re-elected, while 64.1 percent said his post should be taken over by "someone else" and 12.7 percent were undecided. Only 17.1 percent of respondents declared that they would approve constitutional changes that could allow Lukashenko to run for another term, whereas 47 percent said they would vote against such changes, and 27.5 percent were undecided.

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