July 13, 2004 OTHERS SAY BOYCOTT IS A DEAD-END STREET.
Two Belarusian opposition alliances, the Popular Coalition Five Plus and the European Coalition Free Belarus, were unenthusiastic about the proposed boycott, RFE/RL reported on 12 July. "Today [the KKhP] has no influence on anything.... Its position [on the 2004 election] is a sectarian one," Viktar Ivashkevich from the Popular Coalition Five Plus told RFE/RL, adding that the boycott is primarily imposed on KKhP members by its charismatic leader Paznyak. "This is a dead-end street," Mikalay Statkevich from the European Coalition Free Belarus said about the KKhP's call for a boycott. "Because a boycott means the rejection of a chance for victory in the future."
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