So far, all laws have been adopted only in one of the state languages, with only a few of them in Belarusian. The attempt to change such a vicious practice failed: the chairman of the parliamentary commission on legislation Natalia Guyvik from Połacak "stabbed" the first bilingual law.
The deputy of the House of Representatives, chairman of the Belarusian Language Society Elena Anisim told about the fate of the first bill that could be adopted simultaneously in Belarusian and in Russian, which tried to create a legal precedent in the House of Representatives: the draft law "Regulatory legal acts "was developed immediately in two languages.
According to the deputy, in private conversations, none of his colleagues opposed such an initiative.
"I sent the draft law with great hope to the parliamentary commission on legislation," Elena Anisim said. "However, the commission's chairman, Natalia Guivik, informed me by an official letter that she would not send documents to the National Center for Legislative and Legal Studies to obtain a legal opinion. She refers to the lack of a mechanism for enacting the law in two languages ??at once. Apparently, colleagues were afraid to take responsibility. And I can not bypass the commission on the rules of parliamentary work, "says the chairman of the Belarusian Language Society.
As a result, the work stopped.
"For more than 20 years our OSCE officials have traveled around Europe, studying how they solve such questions. I myself went to Finland as a representative of the TBM, where together with deputies I studied the experience of passing laws in several state languages at the same time. And we have not done anything yet, "Anisim complains.
Who is Natalia Guivik, who became an obstacle to the adoption of the first law in the two state languages?
The future deputy was born in 1962 in the Russian city of Kirov – 900 kilometers northeast of Moscow. In Połacak, she moved only in 1983, and eventually became a judge.
Her election to the House of Representatives in 2012 was accompanied by a scandal. Over 50% (!) Of the participants in the elections were supposedly voted ahead of time and at their place of residence.
Guivik's rival was the odious ONT journalist Alexei Mikhalchenko – as it is, so it is. She reproached the enemy for not having a higher education.
It is noteworthy that she herself graduated from the All-Union Legal Correspondence Institute. And Guivik, providing documents to the electoral commission, tried to remove the word "correspondence" from the name of the institution.
In 2015, MP Guivik became famous for having received about $ 20,000 from someone as a gift. This information was included in its official declaration.
Last year, Guivik was re-elected to parliament and became chairman of the commission on legislation.
Her family is Mikhail's husband and daughter Olga Alexandrovna. The husband by education is a physicist-teacher and, in addition, a retired lieutenant colonel of militia. And her daughter works as a leading advertising specialist on radio Unistar.
According to: Bronislaw Jurevich, nn.by
