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Liberal Democratic Party leader Sergei Gaidukevich may become senator

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Liberal Democratic Party leader Sergei Gaidukevich may become senator

At the last week’s press conference, Central Election Commission head Lidia Yermoshina said that the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party Sergei Gaidukevich was nominated for the Council of the Republic, the upper chamber of the Belarusian parliament. Usually, elections to the upper chamber of the Belarusian parliament are kept low-profile and held without the competition – there is no information about all nominees. Most likely, the initial scenario implied that Gaidukevich’s son Oleg, also from the LDPB, could become a deputy in the lower parliament’s chamber, since there were no other candidates in his constituency. However, the authorities’ plans have changed in the last moment and they have put Belarusian ambassador in Austria Valery Voronetsky as a candidate in that constituency, thereby reducing Oleg Gaidukevich’s chances to win a seat in the parliament to a minimum. If Sergei Gaidukevich from LDPB, three-time presidential candidate, becomes the member of the upper chamber, this may be presented to the voters and western observers as ‘the opposition’ in the parliament.

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