19 candidates to run for president in Belarus
MINSK. September 25. KAZINFORM There will be 19 candidates in the Belarusian presidential election of December 19, 2010. All of them have applied to the Central Elections Commission for registering groups of citizens that nominate them for president; Kazinform refers to ITAR-TASS.
When the groups are registered, they will start collecting signatures in candidates' support from September 30. No less than 100,000 signatures must be collected per candidate.
"The Central Elections Commission has stopped receiving applications for registration of initiative groups. A decision on their registration is due on September 27," a Central Elections Commission source told Itar-Tass.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko applied to the Central Elections Commission for registering his initiative group on Friday; Kazinform cites ITAR-TASS.
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