All-Belarusian People's Assembly: Will There Be Any Consequences?

All-Belarusian People's Assembly: Will There Be Any Consequences? Online meeting of the expert-analytical club

The All-Belarusian People's Assembly is scheduled for February 2021. Until now, it has been a ritual organ with no legal status used to express symbolic support for the regime. However, as the 2020 presidential elections demonstrated, even procedures controlled by the authorities can become a catalyst for protest mobilization. The authorities talked about giving the Assembly the constitutional status, while the opponents of the authorities talked about sanctions against all its delegates and holding alternative meetings.

Today’s open questions include:

1) What will be the final agenda of the All-Belarusian People's Assembly? Will it become another ritual of the approval of the five-years plan, or will important statements on political reforms be made on this platform?

2) How will the opponents of the authorities use the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly? What will be the effect of these initiatives?

3) Will the All-Belarusian People's Assembly become an important milestone in the development of Belarus’ socio-political crisis?

Speakers:

Yury Drakakhrust, a political columnist, Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe;
Tatsiana Chulitskaya, a political scientist, academic director of SYMPA, researcher at Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania);
Piotr Rudkouski, a director of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS);
Ryhor Astapenia, an associate expert at Chatham House, research director at the Center for New Ideas.
Moderators - Valeria Kostyugova (Nashe Mnenie), Vadim Mojeiko (BISS) and Anton Ruliou (Belarus in Focus Information Office/Press Club Belarus).

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