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Sviatlana Cichanouskaya opens the international conference “Democratic elections to resolve the crisis in Belarus” on June 1-2, 2021. The aim of the conference is to discuss how presidential elections in Belarus to resolve the crisis can be achieved and how to organize them. The conference is being organized by international partners IFES (USA), International IDEA (Sweden) and DRI (Germany) under the auspices of Cichanouskaya, “we said in a statement on the opposition Telegram channel.
The International Electoral Systems Foundation (IFES) and Democracy Reporting International are non-governmental organizations that support civil society, democracy, and free and transparent elections. The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (Internationa IDEA) is an intergovernmental organization with a similar mission.
It is also stated that Belarus will be represented at the conference by S. Cichanouskaja, his Special Representative for Electoral Affairs Alexander Schlyk, Counselor Franak Viačorka, Member of the Presidium of the Opposition Coordination Council Volha Kavalkova, Member of the People’s Anti-Crisis Board Pavel Latuška and other civil society actors.
The conference will also be attended by Klara Dobrev, Vice President of the European Parliament, Bill Keating, Member of the United States Congress, Roberto Montella, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) , Kevin Casasas Zamora, Secretary General of International IDEA, Tamar Zsolt Szolnoki, Secretary General of the Association of European Election Officials (ACEEEO), Urzula Gacek, Polish electoral expert, and others ”, says the report.
S. Cichanouskaya’s office also “offered to participate in the [Baltarusijos] representatives of the authorities, including the head of administration, Ihar Serhejenk, his deputy, Volh Čuprys, and a member of the House of Representatives, Sviatlan Lübeck ”.
After unacknowledged elections by the Belarusian opposition and the West on August 9 last year, which were declared the winners by Aliaksandr Lukashenko, the country has been rocked by mass protests for several months since 1994, with thousands of protesters arrested and killed. Western countries have imposed sanctions on the Minsk regime, including Lukashenko himself, for the crackdown.
Lukashenko’s opponents say the election was rigged and the real winner is political rookie S. Cichanouskaya, who ran in place of her incarcerated husband. He went to Lithuania after the elections; The Belarusian police have prosecuted her for terrorism.
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