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CCP BPF activists in Vitebsk are for a boycott of local elections

Activist of the Conservative Christian Party BPF Jan Dzyarzhautsau Oleg Emelyanov and Peter Sarapenya Administration filed in the October district of Vitebsk request for holding pickets March 5. The purpose of the proposed action, as defined in the proposal - "Agitation voter for an active boycott of elections, which is organized by the pro-Russian political regime illegitimate."

Pickets for the boycott to be held in a place specially designated by the city authorities Vitebsk under mass action. However, the chances that the Government allowed event - minimum. Since the city has a City Council decision № 881 "On Mass Events in Vitebsk", which requires organizers of street action before filing their conduct servicing contracts with these physicians share, policemen and community services.

Yet there was not a single case that someone from the opposition managed to fulfill the terms of the decision number 881, - stated in the decision service strongly deviate from the conclusion of the necessary agreements. Given this, the applicants are asked for a boycott pickets authorities when considering their applications adhere directly Law "On Mass Events" do not take into account the decision number 881, which, as they write in the proposal "does not comply with the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus, depriving citizens the opportunity to realize right to freedom of public expression of their thoughts and the right to freedom of peaceful assembly".