Mіlіnkevіch: Elections of single candidate remind me of beauty contest

Alyaksandr Milinkevich, the leader of the movement “For Freedom!”, has called the attempts to select a single opposition candidate who will take part in the elections a mere game. He noted he did not want to play it in an interview with ERB. Alyaksandr Milinkevich: “We are playing a very serious political game. It is a struggle for the country, for independence and democracy. How can we just elect a single candidate when some candidates say that we should recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and introduce the Russian ruble while others support the European choice? Just imagine that those who will take part in the procedure will have to say: “I will support whoever wins. Is it serious or not?”
Milinkevich has compared the attempts to select a single candidate to a beauty contest having neither idea nor ideology.

Let us remind you that the head of the Belarusian Council of Intellectuals Ulazdimir Kolas has claimed recently that a round-table discussion is going to result in the election of a single opposition candidate soon. According to him, Yaraslau Ramanchuk, Mіkalai Statkevіch, Alyaksandr Kazulіn, Alyaksandr Yarashuk, Syarhei Kalyakіn, Uladzіmіr Nyaklyayeu, Vіtal Rymasheuskі and Ryhor Kastusyou will take part in the procedure of electing a single candidate.

Andrei Sannikau has not taken a decision about his participation yet. Alyaksandr Milinekvich and Ales Mihalevich have refused to take part in the procedure.