Zmitser Bandarenka: “Appointed to “palatka” oppositionists will legitimate dictatorship”

If some opponents of the regime are permitted to seat in parliament, the authorities will be able to say about legimacy of the “dictatorial system”.

Zmitser Bandarenka, one of the leaders of the “European Belarus” civil campaign and coordinator of Charter’97, told it in an interview to Radio Svaboda.

– As for today, most members of the “European Belarus” civil campaign stand for boycott. They are the Young Front, activists of “Jeans for Freedom” civil campaign, “For Freedom” civil campaign (this shouldn’t be confused with “Movement for Freedom”), and a number of famous politicians and figures of the civil society, the politician said.

– Will some actions be held, or will it be a silent boycott?

– Now, information materials calling to boycott are being spread all over the country, banners are hung out, campaign acts on the Internet. People are also informed about the sense of boycott and its necessity during gathering signatures for Belarus’s joining the European Union.

– In your view, why is boycott purposeful?

– It is obvious that there are no free elections in Belarus, al participants of the Belarusian political field agree with it. Everyone understands that when opposition figures appear in the so called house of representatives, they will the oppositionists appointed by dictator Lukashenka. We a re totally against this approach. In this case, power of Lukashenka will be legitimised, all international agreements, approved by “palatka”, will be recognised, uncontrolled privatisation, which is held today and will be held on a wider scale soon, will be legitimised, too. The Belarusian people is being robbed now, and the actions of the authorities are not controlled. Lukasheka is not controlled even by other branches. These two or three people that can be appointed oppositionists in the “house of representatives”, they will legitimate the dictatorial system. We are totally against this approach, that is why we call for boycott.