{"id":119573,"date":"2024-12-24T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/119573\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"rights-activist-mocks-lukasenkas-decision-not-to-use-his-tv-spot","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/119573\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights activist mocks \u0141uka\u0161enka&#8217;s decision not to use his TV spot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>December 24, <em>Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka&#8217;s decision not to use a 10-minute television spot for his presidential campaign address has met with derision by lawyer Pavie\u0142 Sapie\u0142ka of the Viasna Human Rights Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a \u201chandout that does not change the right to elect and be elected especially when your opponents are held incommunicado behind bars, while the active part of the opposition has been de facto deported from Belarus,\u201d spring.96.org quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presidential hopefuls&#8217; televised addresses are not likely to influence the election tightly choreographed by \u0141uka\u0161enka, Sapie\u0142ka said, adding that the public is not interested in the presidential election that will take place less than in month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, the central election commission registered \u0141uka\u0161enka, in power since 1994, his supporters Aleh Hajdukievi\u010d, Alaksandar Chi\u017eniak, Siarhiej Syranko\u016d and former MP Hanna Kanapackaja as presidential candidates in the election scheduled for January 21-26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presidential hopefuls have been assigned TV spots on January 9 and 16, with radio addresses scheduled for on January 8, 10, 15, 17, it announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current campaign is taking place in a purged political landscape amid a new wave of crackdown on regime critics. The whole election cycle is limited to just three months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarus has not held a single free and fair election since 1996 by the standards of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/latushko_opk-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/latushko_opk-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/latushko_opk-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/latushko_opk-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/latushko_opk-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/latushko_opk.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Elections<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Elections, Politics<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Presidential candidates are fake, opposition politician says<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">December 24, Pozirk. Pavie\u0142 \u0141atu\u0161ka, head of the National Anti-Crisis Management, a Polish-based Belarusian opposition group, has branded presidential candidates as &quot;fake people&quot; and called on Belarusians to vote against all of them. &quot;It is the only public activism possible &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/119483\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 24, Pozirk. Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka&#8217;s decision not to use a 10-minute television spot for his presidential campaign address has met with derision by lawyer Pavie\u0142 Sapie\u0142ka of the Viasna Human Rights Center. This is a \u201chandout that does not change the right to elect and be elected especially when your opponents are held incommunicado behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":119533,"template":"","rubric":[38,16],"class_list":["post-119573","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-elections","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rights activist mocks \u0141uka\u0161enka&#039;s decision not to use his TV spot | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 24, Pozirk. 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