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Poll: Over 21 percent of Belarusians view themselves as Lukashenka's opponents
As many as 21.3 percent of the Belarusians view themselves as opponents of Alyaksandr Lukashenka's government, the Vilnius-based Independent Institute for Social, Economic and Political Studies (IISEPS) said with reference to a survey conducted in December, BelaPAN said.
Twenty percent of the respondents said that they trusted opposition parties, while 55.8 percent said that they did not.
As many as 4.8 percent said that they supported former presidential candidate Andrey Sannikaw, the highest level of support for an opposition politician. As many as 4.6 percent said that they supported Uladzimir Nyaklyayew, another former presidential candidate, while 1.1 and 0.9 percent named political prisoner Mikalay Statkevich and Anatol Lyabedzka, leader of the United Civic Party, respectively.
More than 47 percent said that government officials were "deaf to the people's needs because of the absence of control from higher-ranking officials." Thirty-seven percent said that government officials were "deaf to the people's needs because of the lack of democratic control." Fourteen percent said that government officials actually helped people solve their problems.
Thirty-five percent suggested that opposition forces should "offer a dialogue to the government," while 33 percent said that the opposition camp should push for Mr. Lukashenka's resignation. As many as 3.1 percent suggested that Mr. Lukashenka's political opponents should organize a violent uprising or revolution.
According to the IISEPS, 62.7 percent of the respondents cast their ballots in September's elections for the House of Representatives, while 9.8 percent boycotted the vote. More than 42 percent described the elections as free and fair.
When asked about who could be behind recent explosions in front of the office of the Committee for State Security (KGB) in Vitsyebsk and the Lithuanian embassy in Minsk, 15 percent named the government, 16.3 percent opposition forces and 33.7 percent "mentally ill people."
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