According to the information spread in the media, at the next session the deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus will consider amendments to the Electoral and Administrative Codes of the Republic of Belarus. According to available information, will be banned campaigning for a boycott of the elections, and for the implementation of such a campaign would have administrative sanctions. In this regard, the Commission on the Law of the House of Representatives asked the chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Council BPF Leanid Autukhou.

According to the party leader, in the event of the above changes will create the legal framework for direct violations of civil and political rights, namely the right to freely express their opinion. The scope of this right extends to the right to publicly call for a boycott of the elections.

Leanid Autukhou also notes that the free will of citizens - this is the basic principle of democratic elections. Since the Belarusian electoral legislation is no principle of compulsory voting, the voter in its sole discretion shall have the right either to vote or to boycott it. In the case of the adoption of the amendments referred to supporters of the boycott will be put at a disadvantage.

"As a campaign to register to vote and campaign for a boycott of voting, have equal legal prerequisites to be implemented by all participants in the electoral process. If in the Belarusian legislation appears administrative punishment for the campaign to boycott the elections, the executive will receive an additional lever to ensure voter turnout at the polls. After failing to appear for a vote can be easily interpreted as a "campaign for the boycott of the elections," and intimidating voters presence of an administrative penalty, forcing them to vote. And those who deliberately wish to participate in the boycott of elections ", - Leanid Autukhou said about its position.

In his address to the parliamentarians of the party leader urged them to take responsibility for the proposed amendments to the IR and RB CAO and prevent the inclusion in the above code provisions that would directly violate the rights and lawful interests of citizens - Belarusian voters.