Candidates do not print leaflets to avoid paying back to state?
Opposition candidates are protesting against the election without any leaflets.
The United Civil Party has decided not to take any money for leaflets from the CEC to agitate for a boycott. They do not want their "speakers" to have any financial problems, explained Anatol Lyabedzka, UCP leader.
UCP hardly has any printed materials urging people to boycott the election. Isn't it strange?
“We have done everything right, - says Anatol Lyabedzka. - Social networks and the Internet are working for us, we will enhance out contacts with the independent press and printed editions".
The BPF Party has also urged its candidates not to accept the money allocated for agitation. They hardly have any leaflets now. The party is not urging to boycott the election, it is "promoting the values of the BPF Party and its platform". The leader of the party, Alyaksei Yanukevich, has admitted that the agitation has suffered due to the lack of leaflets.
Alyaksei Yanukevich: "There would have been more agitation materials if they had accepted the money. I admit it. However, it was our deliberate decision".
BSDP (Assembly) leader Iryna Veshtard has answered the question how their candidates are agitating without any money: "They are doing it the way they can".
All the 11 candidates of "Tell the Truth!" have accepted money from the CEC and have used it. Andrei Dzmitryyeu, deputy leader of the campaign, does not exclude that they may boycott the election at the end of the election campaign. And they are ready to give the money back to the state.
Yauhen Preiherman thinks that the strategy of "participation and a boycott" is inefficient. Still, it gives an opportunity to communicate with electors and to express your moral position. And it is the most important thing for the majority of candidates.
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