Republic
25.01.2006
Alexander Lukashenko’s initiative group has collected 1,574,239 signatures to support the nomination of the incumbent president as a candidate for the presidency, reads a press release of the initiative group.
In this connection head of the initiative group Viktor Sheiman has thanked warmly those citizens of Belarus who supported the candidature of Alexander Lukashenko to be nominated for presidency.
The number of people supporting the incumbent president is growing. “This is a logical outcome of the socio-economic policy pursued in the republic which is oriented towards the needs of every man”, Viktor Sheiman noted. Moreover, compared with 2001 the initiative group of the Belarusian leader is considerably bigger.
The initiative group to nominate Alexander Lukashenko for presidency is composed of 6212 people. The group has already received 1872 offers and requests. “We make concrete decisions concerning every offer and request”, the head of the initiative group underlined.
Thus, the initiative group filed an application to the health ministry of Belarus to simplify the rules of selling medical preparations on prescriptions and also proposed to intensify housing construction for of servicemen and officers of the law enforcement bodies, Viktor Sheiman informed.