13 August 2001
Poll predicts 79 percent presidential turnout in Brest

 Out of 288 voters polled in Brest 79 percent said they would vote in the country's presidential elections in September, the Brest-based polling agency
Shchyrast reports.
When asked who they planned to vote for, 25 percent named the current head of state, Aleksandr Lukashenko; and 12 percent chose trade union leader Vladimir Goncharik, the anti-Lukashenko opposition's favorite for president. Ten percent gave preference to former Grodno region governor Semyon Domash, No. 2 on the opposition's candidate list; four percent preferred Liberal Democratic Party leader Sergei Gaidukevich; and 38 percent said they had not chosen yet.
Fifty-four percent of the respondents disapproved and 34 percent approved of the way Mr. Lukashenko has been running Belarus for seven years. Thirteen percent either skipped the question or checked "Difficult to say".