Contenders get to know about meeting dedicated to selection of single candi

Uladzimir Nyaklyayeu and Yaraslau Ramanchuk got to know they were supposed to meet the other contenders to create a pattern of selection of a single candidate today from mass media. The candidate of the BPF Party Ryhor Kastusyou informed that the meeting had to take place right after the negotiations with the Polish and German Foreign Ministers yesterday. Even the exact time was mentioned – 4.50 p.m. on November 2.

“I was surprised to read that we were going to meet yesterday. The meeting was supposed to take place after the meeting with the Foreign Ministers of Poland and Germany, - Uladzimir Nyaklyayeu is amazed. – Furthermore, it looks like the Ministers should tell us and indicate who should be chosen and we will have to deal with it. There was no agreement of the kind. Maybe somebody agreed on it in my absence, probably they did”.

He added that they had only agreed to invite journalists to the meeting on Friday. They decided to discuss “a step towards the possible selection of a single candidate in the square” in their presence. The meeting is appointed for November 24 as the results of the registration of the presidential contenders will be announced then.
Nyaklyayeu’s statement filled the contender of the BPF Party Ryhor Kastusyou with indignation.

Ryhor Kastusyou: “I don’t seem to have lost my memory! We spent 1.5 hours waiting for the Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė  during the meeting in the Lithuanian Embassy. There were five of us: Ramanchuk, Rymasheuski, Sannikau, Nyaklyayeu and me. We agreed that we would meet the same way after we presented collected signatures and would allow others to join us and continue our negotiations. Naturally, we did not denote the topic of the negotiations but I am sure that we did charge Nyaklyayeu with the responsibility of organization of the meeting!”

He claimed it was the first time he heard about the meeting on Friday. To tell the truth, he confessed that the exact date was not mentioned when they had agreed about the meeting in the Lithuanian Embassy. He did not explain why he was so sure that the meeting had to take place at 4.50 p.m. on November 2. He said they had agreed to meet as soon as there was a reason for it. And the meeting with ministers is a good reason.

The deputy head of the United Civil Party Yaraslau Ramanchuk did not understand Kastusyou’s indignation either. According to him, there was no agreement to begin the negotiations after the today’s meeting. In fact, the contenders are not ready for it.

Yaraslau Ramanchuk: “Such issues should be based on something and should be discussed. People have their plans. How is it possible!? We will look at one another and try to find out what Kastusyou meant today. The goals were not announced and the date was not appointed back then – nothing at all!”

At the same time, Ramanchuk heard about the possible meeting of candidates in the presence of journalists in order to start some discussion about the single candidate on Friday. The politician has informed ERB that he has dedicated some time to this event in his schedule.

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