Compromise Collapses on Eve of Belarus Vote
Associated Press
MINSK, Belarus —
The hard-line president and his parliamentary foes scrapped a Moscow-brokered settlement of their dispute Saturday, feeding fears of political collapse on the eve of a hotly debated referendum.
Voters in this former Soviet republic decide today whether to support President Alexander G. Lukashenko’s bid to expand his already vast authority.
Nationalists, angered by Lukashenko’s policy of moving closer to Moscow’s orbit, are threatening to boycott the referendum.
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