Belarusian referendum, 2004
- Belarusian referendum, 2004
The October 17 2004 Belarus Referendum was declared by President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in his decree #431 on September 7 2004. The referendum was about the following question:
*Do you permit the first President of the Republic of Belarus Lukashenko A.G. to participate as a candidate for Presidency of the Republic of Belarus during the President elections and do you adopt the Part I of Article 81 of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus in the following wording:
**"President is elected for the term of 5 years directly by the people of the Republic of Belarus by means of the universal, free, equal and direct suffrage under the voting by secret ballot"?
6,307,395 citizens took part in the referendum, or 90.28% of the total electorate of 6,986,163. 79.42% voted for, 9.90% voted against, the rest of ballots were declared invalid.
External links
* [http://www.rec.gov.by/refer/refer2004.html Official 2004 Belarus Rederendum data]
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