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Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly

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Leader
  
Stanislav Shushkevich

Headquarters
  
Minsk

Founded
  
1991

Ideology
  
Social democracy

Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly (Belarusian: Беларуская сацыял-дэмакратычная Грамада) known simply as "Hramada" or "The Assembly" is a Belarusian political party. The leader of the party is Stanislav Shushkevich.

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Leadership

The head of the party, since the 2010 presidential election, has been Stanislav Shushkevich who has the distinction of having been the first head of state an independent Belarus between 1991 and 1994. After losing the election for president in 1994 he did not participate in politics again until helping to from the party in 1998. In 2004 he was not allowed to register as a candidate and so in the last 2010 presidential election he was a supporter of the candidate Andrei Sannikov.

Policies

  • The party supports fairness and equality and that everyone has the right to a decent standard of living and greater economic opportunities.
  • The party takes a stand against corruption among government officials and supporters who became rich and put their own interests ahead of principles of justice, equality and solidarity.
  • The party also campaigns for human dignity, a high standard of living, health and education.
  • The party was in favor of reducing the Russian language to the status of second state-language in Belarus. However, the status of the Russian language was settled in a national referendum in 1995, when 83.3% of the population who took part in the referendum supported Russian being kept as the official (first) state language.

    • History

  • 1991 - Creation of the Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly, with Michael Tkachow as a chairman.
  • 1996 - Association with Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord, formation of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly).
  • 1998 - Reconstruction of the Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly led by Stanislav Shushkevich.

    • References

    Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly Wikipedia
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