{"id":45860,"date":"2023-02-25T22:34:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T19:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/prominent-opposition-member-leaves-coordination-council\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"prominent-opposition-member-leaves-coordination-council","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45860\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent opposition member leaves Coordination Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>February 25, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Belarusian opposition politician Pavie\u0142 \u0141atu\u0161ka says he is leaving the Coordination Council, a loose union of Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s critics. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cThis is not about me personally. It is due to an approach that may eventually lead to a change in the Belarusian democratic forces\u2019 strategy,\u201d \u0141atu\u0161ka told <span>Euroradio<\/span>. \u201cEverything that is happening now, in my opinion, can lead to a resumption of the crisis [in the democratic forces] and its transition to a higher level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> According to him, the Coordination Council plans to adopt a procedure soon, and it can become a problem.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI think it\u2019s important to fight to reach our goal. Now we have two enemies: the occupier \u2013 the Russian Federation, which has occupied Belarus \u2013 and \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s totalitarian regime. If we move into a situation where we really focus on our internal political disputes, on the internal political tug-of-war \u2013 and the proposed procedure creates these prerequisites \u2013 we will actually lose resources and only pretend to be fighters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> \u0141atu\u0161ka criticized what he described as a ban on Coordination Council members\u2019 service in other opposition institutions, as well as the Council\u2019s supposed transformation into an unelected \u201cproto-parliament\u201d that wants to represent Belarus in the international arena. In addition, the politician spoke out against the Council\u2019s perceived intention to move from pressure on \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s regime to negotiations.<\/p>\n<p> The renewed Coordination Council held its first meeting on January 26. It is a successor to the Coordinating Council for Political Crisis Settlement established in August 2020. The Belarusian government has designated it an extremist group and opened criminal cases against its leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Now it reportedly consists of 15 original members, 73 new delegates from public organizations and 15 independent deputies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 25, BPN. Belarusian opposition politician Pavie\u0142 \u0141atu\u0161ka says he is leaving the Coordination Council, a loose union of Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s critics. \u201cThis is not about me personally. It is due to an approach that may eventually lead to a change in the Belarusian democratic forces\u2019 strategy,\u201d \u0141atu\u0161ka told Euroradio. \u201cEverything that is happening now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45860","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prominent opposition member leaves Coordination Council | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 25, BPN. 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