Nationality Belarus Name Siarhei Skrabets | ||
Siarhei Skrabets (Belarusian: Сяргей Мiкалаевiч Скрабец, Russian: Сергей Николаевич Скребец, born 25 October 1963 in Lida) is a Belarusian politician and the public figure. He was deputy of the House of Representatives of Belarus in the second election, floor leader of the opposition parliament group Republiс, chairman of the commission of penology of Belarusian Helsinki Committee, and a participant of the presidential election in 2001 and 2006.
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Biography
Skrabets was born in 1963 in Lida. He has two higher education. He graduated Belarusian National Technical University and Belarusian State University.
Political activity
He was running for president in the 2001 presidential elections of Belarus. In summer 2004 he took part in the hunger strike of the “Respublika” deputies (Vladimir Parfenovich, Siarheyi Skrabets and general Valeriy Frolov), who demanded democratization of the Electoral Code.
He has been the chairman of the central organizing committee of Belorussian social democratic Party (Freedom) since 2009.