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Eight applications for registration of nomination groups already filed

Eight presidential hopefuls have already applied for the registration of their nomination groups, Mikalay Lazavik, secretary of the central election commission, told BelaPAN on Friday, the day of the application deadline.

On September 23, registration applications were filed by Yaraslaw Ramanchuk, an economist who is deputy chairman of the United Civic Party, Uladzimir Nyaklyayew, a poet-turned-politician who leads the “Tell the Truth!” campaign, Yury Hlushakow, first deputy chairman of the Belarusian Party of the Greens, Uladzimir Pravalski, a small business owner resident in Vitsyebsk, Syarhey Ryzhow, head of the foreign economic activities department of a fruit and vegetable company in Vitsyebsk, and Natallya Starykava, a junior nurse at a health center in the Homyel district, and opposition politician Andrey Sannikaw.

The nomination groups of Messrs. Hlushakow and Ryzhow reportedly have 244 and 112 members, respectively.

The central election commission plans to consider Thursday`s applications on September 27.

The commission has already granted registration to the nomination group of Viktar Tsyareshchanka. The 60-year-old economist’s group thus became the first nomination group to be allowed to collect ballot-access signatures for the December 19 election.