Five Opposition Not Going to Recognize Parliamentary Elections Results
Five opposition groups adopted a joint declaration on Sunday saying that the September 18–23 elections for the House of Representatives failed to meet international standards.
The declaration was signed by the Belarusian Popular Front (BPF), the “Tell the Truth!” movement, the “Spravedlivy Mir” (Just World) Belarusian Party of the Left, the Hramada Belarusian Social Democratic Party and the “Rukh Za Svabodu” Movement for Freedom.
While talking to reporters after the document was signed, BPF leader Aliaksiej Janukievich said that the Belarusian authorities had failed to “correct” their mistakes after the 2010 presidential election. “No conclusions have been drawn, the regime is still sacrificing economic and plitical interests in favor of keeping power,” he said.
The authorities have failed to make changes to the Electoral Code that would secure a transparent parliamentary vote, as well as have refused to release political prisoners and stuck to their practice of putting pressure on political opponents ahead of elections, according to the politician.
Law enforcement agencies have been used to intimidate and pressurize pro-opposition parliamentary candidates and their campaign aides, while many pro-opposition candidates have had their televised addresses to voters censored, Mr. Janukievich said.
“All of that already gives us the right, regardless of the outcome of the vote that will be announced by [election] commissions that lack representatives of opposition organizations, not to recognize the 2012 elections for the House of Representatives as transparent, democratic and conforming to the international standards that Belarus has pledged to observe,” he noted.
The declaration urges international organizations of which Belarus is a member to step up pressure on the country's authorities for the purpose of ending political repression and securing the release and exoneration of the political prisoners.
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