{"id":59838,"date":"2024-01-08T23:15:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=59838"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"leaders-of-several-opposition-parties-consider-2024-elections-illegitimate","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders of several opposition parties consider 2024 elections illegitimate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>January 8, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Leaders of eight Belarusian political forces do not consider the elections scheduled for February to be legitimate. Their position was presented today at a press conference in Vilnius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only pro-government parties remain in Belarus and &#8220;there is no competition in the elections,&#8221; said U\u0142adzimir \u0160anca\u016d, acting chairman of the United Civi\u0441 Party (UCP). Last year, the UCP urged citizens not to vote or to vote against everyone if forced to cast their ballots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the regime has planned &#8220;cannot be called elections,&#8221; said Dzianis Sado\u016dski, a Belarusian Christian Democracy leader. It is a &#8220;total falsification&#8221; and &#8220;a complete farce.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, several Christian Democrats are planning to run for local councils, he added. &#8220;Some have even been registered as candidates and are now running their campaigns.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vadzim Saran\u010duko\u016d, acting chairman of the Belarusian Popular Front, said he was not aware of any BPF members competing for local or parliamentary seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ja\u016dhien Vilski, acting chairman of Narodnaja Hramada, said their position was &#8220;clear and concise&#8221;: &#8220;There can be no elections in a concentration camp.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four other parties &#8211; the Belarusian Greens Party, Belarusian Social Democratic Hramada, Razam, and Movement for Freedom &#8211; did not participate in the press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2024, elections for the House of Representatives and local councils will be held on the same day, February 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has not held a single free and fair election by the standards of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe since 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 8, Pozirk. Leaders of eight Belarusian political forces do not consider the elections scheduled for February to be legitimate. Their position was presented today at a press conference in Vilnius. Only pro-government parties remain in Belarus and &#8220;there is no competition in the elections,&#8221; said U\u0142adzimir \u0160anca\u016d, acting chairman of the United Civi\u0441 Party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-59838","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>Leaders of several opposition parties consider 2024 elections illegitimate | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 8, Pozirk. Leaders of eight Belarusian political forces do not consider the elections scheduled for February to be legitimate. Their position was\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Leaders of several opposition parties consider 2024 elections illegitimate | Pozirk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"January 8, Pozirk. Leaders of eight Belarusian political forces do not consider the elections scheduled for February to be legitimate. Their position was\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pozirk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pozirkonline\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-24T20:40:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Pozirk_online\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/\"},\"headline\":\"Leaders of several opposition parties consider 2024 elections illegitimate\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-08T20:15:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-24T20:40:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/\"},\"wordCount\":256,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/\",\"name\":\"Leaders of several opposition parties consider 2024 elections illegitimate | Pozirk\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-08T20:15:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-24T20:40:57+00:00\",\"description\":\"January 8, Pozirk. Leaders of eight Belarusian political forces do not consider the elections scheduled for February to be legitimate. Their position was\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Leaders of several opposition parties consider 2024 elections illegitimate\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Pozirk\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Pozirk\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cropped-Logo_color_512.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cropped-Logo_color_512.png\",\"width\":512,\"height\":512,\"caption\":\"Pozirk\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pozirkonline\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pozirk_online\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Leaders of several opposition parties consider 2024 elections illegitimate | Pozirk","description":"January 8, Pozirk. Leaders of eight Belarusian political forces do not consider the elections scheduled for February to be legitimate. Their position was","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Leaders of several opposition parties consider 2024 elections illegitimate | Pozirk","og_description":"January 8, Pozirk. Leaders of eight Belarusian political forces do not consider the elections scheduled for February to be legitimate. Their position was","og_url":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/","og_site_name":"Pozirk","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pozirkonline\/","article_modified_time":"2026-02-24T20:40:57+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@Pozirk_online","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/"},"headline":"Leaders of several opposition parties consider 2024 elections illegitimate","datePublished":"2024-01-08T20:15:42+00:00","dateModified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/"},"wordCount":256,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/#organization"},"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/","url":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/","name":"Leaders of several opposition parties consider 2024 elections illegitimate | Pozirk","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2024-01-08T20:15:42+00:00","dateModified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57+00:00","description":"January 8, Pozirk. Leaders of eight Belarusian political forces do not consider the elections scheduled for February to be legitimate. Their position was","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/59838\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Leaders of several opposition parties consider 2024 elections illegitimate"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/","name":"Pozirk","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/#organization","name":"Pozirk","url":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cropped-Logo_color_512.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cropped-Logo_color_512.png","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"Pozirk"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pozirkonline\/","https:\/\/x.com\/Pozirk_online"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/59838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"rubric","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rubric?post=59838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}