Lyavon Barshcheuski: “We must demand new election”
- 3.09.2008, 15:33
“The authorities have screwed up this “election”, so we had to demand new date for the election and new election. We can achieve it only by breaking the plan of the authorities,” chairman of the Belarusian Popular Front Lyavon Barshcheuski said at an online conference at Radio Svaboda’s website.
In Lyavon Barshcheuski’s vie, “a candidate who will remain after September 23 (the day of beginning of early falsified voting), will work for the process, not for a result.”
The BPF leader noted that his party would carry on the “election campaign” up to a final stage “when sharks begin to count votes”.
“the party decided that we shouldn’t take part in this stage. Unfortunately, we had to demonstrate concrete facts to our society and the European democratic community to prove that we have no “election”. If BPF member Alyaksandr Mekh of Kobryn wouldn’t have planned to run in the “election”, he hadn’t been fired. If our party wouldn’t have nominated 338 candidates for polling stations election commissions and haven’t been denied, what facts could demonstrate the way of forming these commissions? If Mr Vyachorka and Ivashkevich wouldn’t have collected thousands of signatures for them, who was able to say the authorities didn’t allow them to “election” unlawfully?” the politician says.
On a question if the BPF party is planning mass actions for September 28, Lyavon Barshcheuski answered, “What concerns an action on September 28, a decision on his was taken by the political council of the United Democratic Forces, and being a part of the UDF, our party will take part in this.” The parties said earlier they would use their constitutional rights for a peaceful protest in case of rigging the “parliamentary election” results.
It should be reminded that on August 30, BPF Soim (Council) decided to withdraw the party MP candidates from the “parliamentary election” till September 23. The candidates are recommended to use the opportunities of the election campaign to explain to the electorate why they refuse to run in this “election”.