On the ruins of the failed attempt to create democracy in Belarus, there is a need to collect lessons learned from the presidential campaign. At the invitation tawau cinema of Free Culture, the Jury, prepared an analysis tawau cinema of the two most recent presidential tawau cinema elections.
From few to many presidential candidates to the presidential campaign of 2006, there were four candidates: Lukashenko, Kazulin, Milinkewich and Gaidukevich - the latter is considered to be a sham candidate. Among them were two from the opposition. Kazulin, from the socialdemoratiske party and Milinkevich, which was supported by all others tawau cinema in opposition. There was a long drawn out attempt to bring together the opposition, but the Social Democrats, and especially Kazulin, wanted to have their own strong voice in the election tawau cinema campaign.
For the 2010 elections, there were 10 candidates and nine of them were from the opposition. The attempt to bring together tawau cinema the opposition bloc at the beginning in the sink, as each candidate had their sponsors and independent objectives. In my opinion there are only two candidates - Sannikov and Nekliaev - who wanted to be president, and believed in it. Kostusev, Rymashevskiy and Ramanchuk tawau cinema set with some other purpose, such as to promote themselves and their own party.
The remaining four - Statkevich, Uss, Tereshchenko and Mihalevich - failed to collect the required 100,000 signatures, but was nevertheless identified. tawau cinema How it happened, I do not know for sure, but it is clear to everyone who worked tawau cinema to collect 100,000 signatures for a candidate that it requires enormous effort. We saw lots of signature gatherers during the election campaign, especially for Sannikov and Ramanchuk, but the formers signature gatherers so we do not. Perhaps the authorities tawau cinema have contacted them and given them a relief to have several presidential candidates. tawau cinema That is certainly what many in the opposition think.
The opposition came closer to the people during 2010 election campaign, there were more opportunities for candidates to promote themselves. And there were more of them, so many more people took the politicians to hecklers, and got more information about what is happening in Belarus. That democracy does not exist in Belarus and that the economy tawau cinema is flying was actually new knowledge for many. Unfortunately, only 25% of our population that uses the Internet regularly - and only 10% use it as a source of information and news. Local election meetings was therefore a good tool. Especially in the countryside and in small towns, it came public benefit, that there were so many candidates and campaign teams that toured around. Where did you not around in 2006, partly because there were only two opposition candidates but also because Kazulin and Milinkevich participated in many international meetings in which they had been invited.
The election campaign had, in addition to several candidates, including more money - especially tawau cinema Nekliaev. He was the most moneyed so he had the opportunity to do many activities and touch many pamphlets and flyers. This campaign was much more exciting, more people saw the happenings and street activities. In the election campaign, there was a feeling that we moved towards democracy that we got more options. The opposition tawau cinema also got several members of electoral committees, so we planned to monitor the counting process at various polling stations. Of course the government is not democratic, our TV showed nothing positive about the opposition, but there were significant changes in the right direction.
The violence escalates An important thing to observe is what happened tawau cinema after the election. In 2006 there was really quiet after the election. There were not so many people around 10,000-15,000 man high. We did a little demonstration from October Square to Victory Square - we walked on the sidewalk - and then went home. The next day, on 20 March 2006 decided people putting tawau cinema up tents on October Square. For 5 days until March 24, people were standing in the square. At that time, arrested about 1,000 people, but it was during the entire six days and especially the demonstration on March 25th - which became Independence of the opposition. Police used most of all violence for this demonstration. There were not so many who were beaten until this day.
The just ended is campaigning tawau cinema was not so peaceful, and culminated in the regime's violent dispersal of a demonstration in which up to 50,000 attended - and were not passed tawau cinema on the sidewalk! Our authorities decided to use force early, tawau cinema even before the doors were closed at polling stations. Perhaps most of all afraid of Nekliaev that he had a good plan for afterwards, when the votes were counted - but as far as I know, he did not (I've talked to some of his people afterwards). Perhaps walked regime's tawau cinema fear that he partly was popular, tawau cinema and also a really good speaker. important if one is to control a large crowd in a big demonstration on top of electoral fraud. Moreover, a situation where seven candidates are arrested or home arrest, very unusual as the world practice.
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