Tatsiana Siavieryniets: Boycott frightens the powers

Tatsiana Siavieryniets, the coordinator of the organizational committee on foundation of Belarusian Christian Democracy, criticized the democratic activists who are going to become “deputy” candidates in the coming election.

“I really don’t understand those politicians who want to be a part in this circus. But Milinkievich shocked me most of all when he announced he’d participate in the election. In his statement he says that, boycotting the election, the opposition risks losing its voters. But to say so is misleading. Today, those who take part in the “election” will help the powers. The Square of 19 December, the political prisoners make it completely impossible and unacceptable,” Tatsiana Sieviaryniets pointed out in an interview to charter97.org.

”I feel bad for the political prisoners kept behind the bars, for those who have to suffer for us. And they will still suffer, because many of those who are free, who can be with their loved ones couldn’t resist the temptation of getting benefits from participation in the “election”. Currently, taking part in the “election” and playing along with the powers is the same as betraying ideas and promises to boycott the “election” that everyone gave so eagerly for just one year ago. But a year has passed, and everything has changed drastically, all principles and promises were forgotten at once,” Tatsiana Siavieryniets emphasized.

“The boycott frightens the powers. They respond with the persecutions that have touched many adherents of the boycott, including Alena Siamienchukova and Yaugen Gutsaliou from Vitsiebsk. We must boycott not only this “election”, but the whole regime, all its decisions. Everyone who supports the boycott, who ignores the “election”, deserves respect,” the leader of the Vitsiebsk regional organization of the Belarusian Christian Democracy said.