Uladzimir Matskevich, a Belarusian philosopher and Belsat TV anchorman, has made a comment on the newly-baked MP Hanna Kanapatskaya’s case and is seeing into its likely impact on opposition parties:
“A politician should be attentive to their promises. The leaders of the United Civic Party of Belarus (UCPB) publicly declared that they would withdraw their candidates if they entered the parliament. Of course, opposition parties, in particular the UCPB, had no hopes that such thing would happen. But if it does happen, one should stand by their words. The authorities did this [let Kanapatskaya become an MP – Belsat TV] on purpose, just to show that Anatol Lyabedzka and his party (UCPB) are having the nose to the wind and do not intend to keep the promises given to themselves, to prove that the opposition politicians’ words go for nothing.
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The regime needs the demoralization of the party: those in power want to prepare for the next steps towards the West – for example, to establish a proportional or mixed system at the next election, when voters cast ballots in accordance with party lists. And the demoralized UCPB will fully correspond to such pattern of quasi-democracy that we see in present-day Russia – so-called opposition parties in the Russian parliament are in fact completely subordinate to the Kremlin.”
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