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13-748: The party suggested merging with the Belarusian Left Party "A Just World" (PKB) on July 15, 2006. While the Communist Party of Belarus is a pro-presidential party, the Party of Communists of Belarus was one of the major opposition parties in Belarus. According to Sergey Kalyakin , the chairman of the PKB, the so-called "re-unification" of the two parties was a plot designed to oust the opposition PKB. The main foreign policy goal of strengthening

26-483: A meeting in support of Alexander Lukashenko . Belarusian Left Party %22A Just World%22 The Belarusian Left Party "A Just World" ( Belarusian : Беларуская партыя левых «Справядлівы свет» , romanized :  Biełaruskaja partyja levych "Spraviadlivy sviet" ) was a former left-wing political party in Belarus that opposes the government of president Alexander Lukashenko . Until October 2009, it

39-824: A split in sentiment occurred within the PBC and in 1996, a pro-Lukashenko faction of the party broke away and formed the Communist Party of Belarus . In the 13–17 October 2004 legislative elections , the party was part of the People's Coalition 5 Plus , which did not secure any seats. These elections fell significantly short of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) standards according to OSCE's Election Observation Mission. Universal principles and constitutionally guaranteed rights of expression, association and assembly were seriously challenged, calling into question

52-556: The Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1977 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Following the 1991 declaration of independence of Belarus, he joined the newly-formed Party of Belarusian Communists. Kalyakin was a candidate for presidency in Belarus in 2001 , 2006 , and 2015 . Following his defeat in the 2006 opposition primary, he assisted the ultimately-unsuccessful campaign of Alaksandar Milinkievič against incumbent Alexander Lukashenko . In 2009, he

65-478: The Belarusian authorities' willingness to respect the concept of political competition on a basis of equal treatment. According to this mission, principles of an inclusive democratic process, whereby citizens have the right to seek political office without discrimination, candidates to present their views without obstruction, and voters to learn about them and discuss them freely, were largely ignored. The party

78-644: The Party of Communists of Belarus. He was the nephew of Mikalay Dzyemyantsyey , former chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic . In 1977 he graduated from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics , becoming a radio engineer. In 1992, he received a diploma of political science at the Belarusian State University . He was a member of

91-824: The US, the European Union and Russia cooperate to develop a common policy regarding Belarus. As of October 2009, the party is a member of the Party of the European Left . In November 2009, the party was renamed to the Belarusian United Left Party "A Just World." On 30 June 2023 it became known about the decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus to refuse to re-register

104-463: The country's upper house , the Council of the Republic of Belarus , in 2012. In 2014, the party increased its representation by obtaining 5 seats. The party improved its result in the 2016 parliamentary elections, where it won 8 seats and then further increased it in the 2019 elections - where it won 11 seats. During the 2020–21 Belarusian protests , the Communist Party of Belarus participated in

117-604: The party proclaimed national security through the development of Belarus-Russia Union State and the phase reconstruction voluntarily renewed Union nations, strengthening its political and economic independence. The KPB is part of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (SKP - KPSS) and the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (IMCWP); it enjoys relations with other communist parties in post-Soviet states and throughout

130-541: The party. This was followed on 29 September 2023 by the party being formally liquidated by the Supreme Court of Belarus , making it the final opposition party to be dissolved in Belarus. Sergey Kalyakin Sergey Ivanovich Kalyakin (16 June 1952 – 15 August 2024) was a Belarusian opposition politician who was the leader of the Belarusian Left Party "A Just World" , until 2009 known as

143-556: The world to a much greater extent than the PKB, which is affiliated with the Party of the European Left and is considered by many in the region to be "pro-Western." At the 2004 parliamentary election , the KPB obtained 5.99% and 8 out of 110 seats in the House of Representatives , 6 seats in 2008 and even less in 2012 - where it won 3 seats. Because of the party's support for President Lukashenko, 17 of its members were appointed by him in

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156-577: Was banned for six months for paperwork irregularities on 2 August 2007. The party has been led by Sergey Kalyakin since founding. In February 2007, Kalyakin visited the United States and met both chambers of the US Congress, Department of State officials, and representatives of non-governmental organizations in order to discuss ways in which the US could influence processes that were taking place in Belarus. In addition, Kalyakin suggested that

169-631: Was known as the Belarusian Party of Communists ( PCB ; Belarusian : Партыя камуністаў беларуская; ПКБ , romanized :  Partyja kamunistaŭ bielaruskaja; PKB , literally "Party of Communists Belarusian"). Founded as the Belarusian Party of Communists (PСB) in 1991 as the legal successor to the ruling Communist Party of Byelorussia , the organization originally emerged as one of the major political parties in independent Belarus. With Lukashenko having become president in 1994,

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