BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
10/12/2007
Belarus Opposition Party Elects Barshchevsky As New Head
MINSK (AFP)--Belarus' main opposition party, the Popular Front, elected a new party leader, Lyavon Barshchevsky, at a party conference in Minsk Sunday.
Barshchevsky, the 49-year-old co-founder of the party, received 211 votes out of a possible 236. Former Popular Front leader Vintsouk Vetsherka was elected the party's senior vice-president.
Barshchevsky is a translator, teacher, man of letters and linguist. He was a member of the Belarus parliament from 1990 to 1995.
Very strict laws constrain the activities of Belarus' political parties, limiting any challenges to the power of President Alexander Lukashenko.
Last month the U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee passed a resolution expressing "deep concern" about the Minsk authorities' use of the criminal justice system to "silence political opposition and human rights defenders."
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