{"id":47754,"date":"2023-07-26T13:09:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T10:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/supreme-court-to-consider-closing-down-two-parties-in-august\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"supreme-court-to-consider-closing-down-two-parties-in-august","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/47754\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to consider closing down two parties in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>July 26, <span>BPN<\/span>. <\/b>On August 9, Judge Anatol Cierach of the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a lawsuit to shut down the Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Human rights defenders monitoring elections in Belarus describe the center-left social democrats as a pro-government party. It was registered in 1997.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Judge Siarhiej Mika\u0142aje\u016d will hear a similar lawsuit against the opposition Belarusian Popular Front (BPF) on August 14.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The party has been active since August 1993. Its leader Ryhor Kastusio\u016d is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence and is widely regarded as a political prisoner.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t In late 2022, Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka called for disbanding parties whose activities run counter to \u201cthe basic principles of internal and foreign policy.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t On February 14, he signed a law requiring all parties to re-register based on more rigorous membership criteria. A week later, Justice Minister Siarhiej Chamienka said that the number of political parties in Belarus will drop from fifteen to three or four after the re-registration campaign.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The justice ministry has already re-registered the pro-government Communist Party of Belarus, the Liberal Democratic Party, the Republican Party of Labor and Justice and Bie\u0142aja Ru\u015b uniting \u0141uka\u0161enka&#8217;s supporters.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Opposition parties refused to identify their members for fear of political reprisals. The justice ministry filed closure suits against the parties that failed to submit member lists.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t On July 20, the Supreme Court closed down the opposition Conservative Christian Party, and four days later, the pro-governmental Belarusian Patriotic Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 26, BPN. On August 9, Judge Anatol Cierach of the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a lawsuit to shut down the Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord. Human rights defenders monitoring elections in Belarus describe the center-left social democrats as a pro-government party. It was registered in 1997. Judge Siarhiej Mika\u0142aje\u016d will hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-47754","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>Supreme Court to consider closing down two parties in August | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 26, BPN. 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