2020 presidential hopeful, general want to run in January’s election

October 31, Pozirk. The central election commission has received two more applications to register ballot-access signature collection groups in the run-up to the January 21-26 presidential election.
Hanna Kanapackaja, a lawyer and businesswoman, was a member of the United Civic Party from 1995 to 2019 and an MP from 2016 to 2019. She was a fringe candidate in the 2020 presidential race, winning 1.7 percent of votes, according to the official data.
Shortly before the main voting day four years ago, Kanapackaja lashed out at Śviatłana Cichanoŭskaja, who built enormous momentum in the race, accusing her of obstructing her pro-EU campaign.
The other new applicant is Maj. Gen. Siarhiej Bobrykaŭ, ex-head of Military Academy.
So far, the CEC registered Alaksandar Łukašenka’s signature collection group, rejecting the applications from Alaksandr Drazdoŭ and Juraś Hubarevič, an exiled opposition politician.
Yesterday, it received applications from Aleh Hajdukievič and Alaksandar Chižniak, leaders of pro-government parties as well as Volha Čamadanava, ideology head at the Minsk City Executive Committee.
Belarus will hold its seventh presidential election from January 21 to 26, with the whole election cycle limited to just three months. The previous 2020 presidential race was marred by police brutality against peaceful protesters.
The country has not held a single free and fair election since 1996 by the standards of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The opposition accuses the Łukašenka government, which fully controls the central election commission, of inventing election results.

Another Łukašenka stalwart submits presidential bid
- PoliticsBelarusian asylum seeker’s arrest in Georgia involved abuse of power – activistThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- PoliticsEU to allocate funding to Belarusian independent media, rights groupsThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Society
- PoliticsRussian MPs vote to allow Belarusians to participate in local electionsThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- PoliticsBundestag’s far-right members question German government about Belarus-linked expendituresThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- EconomyAgricultural production down 2.7 percent in H1The material is available only to POZIRK+
- EconomyBiełstat: corporate debt up 31 percent in January-MayThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Politics, Security
- Economy
- EconomyReal income’s rise slows down in January–MayThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- PoliticsSCO foreign ministers hold conference with Chinese leaderThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- PoliticsPoland grants asylum to about 1,000 Belarusians this yearThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- PoliticsReprisals: exiled blogger charged with insulting state symbolsThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- Society
- Politics
- Politics, SecurityMinsk ratifies classified info deal with MyanmarThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- PoliticsCall to free Belarus rights activistsThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- SecurityBelarus region schedules alarm system testThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- SecurityCommanders pass fitness test on Łukašenka’s ordersThe material is available only to POZIRK+
- PoliticsViasna leadership arrest has not stopped human rights defense – lawyerThe material is available only to POZIRK+