40 thousand leaflets for boycott and... 30 observers
"Active boycott" is limited to common pickets with those who run in the election and a small number of leaflets.
The UCP and BPF have a simple plan of boycott - removal of candidates. They "legally" say about this on TV, and at the pickets. So how do the most ardent boycott adherents put their views into practice, those who even refused to nominate candidates?
Activists of the Belarusian Christian Democracy convey their boycott moods to the voters with ... the UCP candidates! For this, they even became their proxies beforehand. Rymasheuski, for example, is a proxy of candidate Yury Khashchavatski.
Vital Rymasheuski: "There’s no word "election"or any other information that it is an electoral picket. There are only ads of the boycott web-sites and we speak only about non-participation in the elections."
Members of the organizing committee of the "Belarusian movement" do their best when they campaign for boycott. However, this is not much.
Viktar Ivashkevich: "We produce leaflets in accordance with our possibilities and have distributed around 40 thousand of these special editions of the newspaper. Well, we will participate in the observation- all 5 days. Something like this ... "
The "Belarusian Movement" plan to involve as many as about 30 people in the observation. The question whether such form of campaigning was effective bewildered Ivashkevich a little.
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