Sannikov and Nyaklyaeu lead in signature collecting among opposition candidates

The Central Election Commission announced the data on the amount of signatures collected to nominate candidates for presidency in Belarus.

Andrei Sannikov, the leader of Euroepan Belarus civil campaign, collected 150,168 signatures;

Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu, the leader of Tell the Truth! campaign has 161,824 signatures;

Yaraslau Ramanchuk, the deputy head of the United Civil Party, gathered 128,699 signatures;

Ryhor Kastusyou, the deputy head of the BPF Party, has 107,083 signatures;

Vital Rymasheuski, the co-chairman of the organizing committee for creating the Belarusian Christian Democracy party got 105,318 signatures;

Mikalai Statkevich, the leader of the organizing committee for creating the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Narodnaya Hramada) gained 117,989 signatures;

Ales Mikhalevich, the leader of For Modernization Union collected 120,531 signatures;

Alyaksandr Lukashenka has 1,113,014 signatures;

Uladzimir Pravalski, an individual entrepreneur from Vitsebsk, collected 109,338 signatures;

Economist Viktar Tsyareshchanka got 122,520 signatures;

Dzmitry Uss, director of Trivium Supplementary liability society, collected 110,753 signatures.

“I don’t know who has really collected 100,000 signatures. I know who could collect them. These are Nyaklyaeu, Ramanchuk, and our team. I have some doubts about the others. The period of signature collecting, when several teams were acting, was successful. It encourages mobilization and activity of people. We must preserve this performance. If we take all democratic candidates together, we’ve collected almost twice as much as at the previous election. So, we need to consider all moments seriously,” the leader of European Belarus civil campaign told in an interview to Radio Svaboda.