Candiadte Sodzel allows insulting remarks about his rivals
The electoral program of Zhan Sodzel, a candidate
of the Communist Party of Belarus running at Kalinouskaya election constituency
#108, has been published in “Minski Kur’yer” newspaper.
In his address to the electorate the candidate calls to preserve stability in
the country and stand against the “pro-Western grant-suckers from the so-called
opposition”.
Zhan Sodzel is one of the youngest candidates in this year’s electoral
campaign. Last year he graduated from the Belarusian State
University. He has worked
as a journalist at the state TV channel ONT, offering to the spectators
negative reports about activities of opposition parties.
He also dwells on this topic in his electoral program: “We value stability,
peace and civil concord in our common house. And we cannot and must not allow
pseudo-patriots and liberals of different kinds to throw our country in the swamp
of chaos and disorder… By voting for the candidate of the Communist Party of
Belarus you will support stability and your own welfare and stand against the
pro-western grant-suckers from the so-called opposition, which is kept by the
Euro-American democracy distributors,” reads the text.
These words contradict to provisions of Article 47 of the Electoral Code of the
Republic of Belarus according to which agitation
materials “must not contain libel and insults towards …candidates”.
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