Sviatlana Tsikhnaouskaya invites you to participate in the International Conference “Democratic Elections for Resolution of Crisis in Belarus”. The conference will be held online on June 1-2, 2021
The purpose of the conference is to bring together Belarusian and international experts on elections to discuss ideas for holding early elections as a means to ending the political crisis in Belarus. In spring 2021, almost 800,000 Belarusian citizens took part in an online survey to express their support for negotiations leading to early elections, and a number of international actors have supported the idea of resolving the crisis through an election. The speakers of the conference will consider possible ways to establish a dialogue between the society and the current authorities of Belarus to create conditions for early elections, ways to hold such elections, and achieve the long-term goal – fundamental electoral reform in Belarus, including the adoption of a new electoral code.
We invite representatives of political parties, public and state structures, and organizations from Belarus and other countries to take part in the online conference and register at the link.
Individual participants will be able to follow the conference in an online broadcast on the official YouTube channel of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Russian. Recordings of the conference in English and Belarusian will be published on the channel later.
More information about the conference can be found in the program available at the link.
The conference is organized jointly with IFES, International IDEA, and DRI. The working languages of the conference will be Belarusian, Russian and English.
