Some participants of the current election campaign voice so many platitudes that induce the head of the Board of the International Consortium "EuroBelarus" Uladzimir Matskevich to speak directly and categorically, "Your experience, gentlemen, is scanty...
Some participants of the current election campaign voice so many platitudes that induce the head of the Board of the International Consortium "EuroBelarus" Uladzimir Matskevich to speak directly and categorically, "Your experience, gentlemen, is scanty and miserable; you see so little that only a small part of the process you participate in can be seen through your experience. The part of your experience is so small that even straining all your analytical skills, you will fail to understand the process”.
The procedure of candidates’ registration to the House of Representatives will last up to August 23 inclusive. To begin from August 27 the registered candidates will be able to speak out with their election programs on radio and television. Attitude towards the upcoming elections remains controversial: someone considers it absurd, someone nominates, but is not going to participate in the elections’ procedure. Some experts believe that Belarusians will gladly go to the polls, while some politicians think that people don’t believe both in the Belarusian parliament, and in the upcoming elections.
"Elections are one of the most important stages of political life in any country. Even if these elections are being profaned. Even if the place where citizens are being elected to is a mock authority and influences nothing in the country, believes Uladzimir Matskevich. Elections in any situation are the acceleration of the political process, deepening of political conflicts, sorting things out between different political forces. Therefore, elections are in any case an important stage in a country’s life. Another thing is that when the elections are in process, it's too late to sort any things out. When the time to act has come – it’s time to act. One should have reasoned prior to that. Not for nothing there is a proverb that you can not feed the dogs when is time to go hunting. Dogs must be hungry for the hunt. Our situation with the elections is similar: the relevant events in the life of the country must have been prepared in advance. And all that is happening now is the result of the previous preparations. Or the result of the lack of preparations".
Some potential candidates who decided to go to talk to the people, agitate them, collect signatures during the current election campaign, are now willing to share their experiences. Particularly striking for Uladzimir Matskevich is the fact that some candidates, round-eyed, say that "it appears, that the most part of people are not interested in politics, they are concerned more about everyday problems than about elections".
"And, I'm sorry, didn’t you know about it before? Do you know at least one country in which people would have been interested more in politics than in their household business? And was it worth participating in the campaign to collect signatures in order to make such a conclusion? asks Uladzimir Matskevich. That's what I consider platitudes. The fact that people do not know the names of any of deputies, and some still have no idea that there is the election in the country coming soon, is not surprising. But some of the contestants are talking about this with a glitter in their eyes! But didn’t you know it before? Have you been awaken and are you participating in the election campaign for the first time? If an 18-year-old person was talking this way, having no previous relation to the election, I would have understood it. But people who currently make such "discoveries" are doing the same things during each election campaign. This is regrettable and very sad".
The election campaign gathering way will, however, be effective in any case. According to Uladzimir Matskevich, one needs to understand that many things in our world happen per se: "We do not plant trees. We can cut them, saw them, chop, care for them. But they will still grow without our help. Similarly, many things happen by themselves. And the way that the things happen by themselves, without our participation or with minimal human involvement, influence all sorts of factors. When people let certain things slide, then things that would have been cultivated become natural and live by themself, without the active participation of people. And the current election campaign takes place almost without any input of the mind, conscience, without the application of forces of most part of the civil society and democratic opposition. Mainly the regime activists apply their forces to it: the CEC and the so-called election committees. While the opposition and civil society are rather watching what's going on without them. And what can we expect, watching the process? Personally, I expect that as a result of the parliamentary elections and the whole situation around this campaign, a part of incapable and unnecessary political branches, offshoots and build-ups on the opposition body will die. Of course, many false political and false oppositional bodies will still continue to be promoted and established, but some of them will however die. It's like a severe winter that not only harms to agriculture, for example. Harsh cold weather freezes weak plants, but tempers strong ones. And we can expect roughly the same results from the upcoming elections".
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