Young Christian Social Union "Young Democrats"
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| Date of establishment: | 1997 |
| Chairman: | Aliaksandr Shumkevich |
Young Christian Social Union "Young Democrats" (JCSU; Belarusian Моладзевы хрысціянска-сацыяльны саюз "Маладыя Дэмакраты" Moladsewy chryszijanska-sazyjalny sajus "Maladyja Demakraty" ) is an independent youth organization in Minsk ( Belarus ), whose ideology are the Christian-democratic values based . Since 2004 the organization has had permanent observer status at YEPP , the youth organization of the European People's Party (EPP). The JCSU is a partner organization in Belarus for the Junge Union .
history
The organization was established in 1997 and officially registered by the Ministry of Justice of Belarus. Before the 2004 general election , the Belarus Supreme Court decided to dissolve the JCSU. The reason for this was an application from the Ministry of Justice due to formal errors. The real reason for the withdrawal of status is believed to be that the organization was one of the largest democratic youth movements registered in Belarus, as well as the participation of the members of the JCSU “Young Democrats” in the initiative groups of the opposition candidates and in the street demonstrations.
In 2002 the JCSU decided to cooperate with the "United Citizens' Party of Belarus" and to act as their youth organization. For seven years, the JCSU Young Democrats worked with the United Citizens' Party of Belarus. At the last congress on February 22, 2009, the majority of the delegates came to the decision that the organization can also carry out its activities independently of this party. Some members of JCSU "Young Democrats" rejected this decision and left the organization. They remained in the youth organization of the United Citizens' Party - Youth VBP, which still exists today.
At the 2009 Congress it was decided to support Alyaksandr Milinkevich as a candidate for the upcoming presidential election. Then another attempt was made by the members of the JCSU “Young Democrats” to regain the status of the officially registered organization. For this purpose, all necessary documents were made available to the Ministry of Justice. However, this was rejected by the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus did not revise this decision.
Participation in the political life of Belarus
- 2000 - Independent monitoring of the parliamentary election process under the auspices of the OSCE . JCSU “Young Democrats”, like the majority of democratic organizations, took part in the organization of the boycott of the non-democratic parliamentary elections.
- 2001 - Before the presidential election the members of JCSU "Young Democrats" organized the coalition "Peramenau", the "Young Front", "Association of Belarusian Students", "Association of Young Entrepreneurs", "Maladaja Gramada" , «Youth VBP», «Belarusian Association of Young Politicians» joined. Members of JCSU “Young Democrats” actively participated in the work of the head office, independent monitoring, mobilization campaigns and initiative groups of democratic candidates - Alexandr Yaroshuk and Vladimir Goncharik.
- 2003 - Active participation in the elections for municipal offices as candidates, volunteers and managers. Some members of the JCSU “Young Democrats” became MPs in municipal offices in Mogilev, Rogachev and other cities.
- 2006 - During the 2006 presidential election , JCSU actively supported “Young Democrats” Alexander Milinkevitsch as the unity candidate of the Belarusian opposition. After the official announcement of the election results, the JCSU “Young Democrats” members took part in the “ Jeans Revolution ”; one of the members of the organization, Denis Denisov, was one of the leaders and symbol of the tent town that stood for a few days next to the Republic Palace on October Square in Minsk. Ten members of JCSU “Young Democrats” were arrested during the police dismantling of the tent town on the night of March 24th.
- 2008 - Before the 2008 general election, three members of JCSU had been taken "Young Democrats" in the uniform, consisting of 110 candidates, list of opposition Alexander Schumkewitsch in Molodechno , Anna Jegorova in Minsk , Arthur Zurbakow in Gomel . According to the official results, however, none of the opposition candidates succeeded in entering parliament. There the parties and non-party candidates for the president had received their seats. Alexander Schumkewitsch had 5566 votes or 10.39% of all votes in the city of Molodechno.
Since the founding of the organization, the large number of active participants in the JCSU “Young Democrats” have been hindered by the state because of their activities and active advocacy of their point of view.
The management of the organization
- Alyaksandr Shumkevich (Chair)
- Arthur Zurbakow (Deputy Chair)
- Aljaksandr Kuwschinow (international secretary)
Her predecessors were:
- Kirill Ignatik
- Vladimir Chervonenko
- Andrei Kazakevich
particularities
In the parliamentary elections in 2008, the chairman of the JCSU “The Young Democrats”, Alexander Schumkewitsch, was the first and for a long time only candidate who had his own website and used it as a tool for communicating with the electorate.
On May 11th, 2009 the meeting of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel , took place in Berlin , in which the members of JCSU “The Young Democrats” also took part. After talking to the representatives of JCSU “The Young Democrats”, Merkel and Sarkozy agreed to wear white-red-white bracelets with the words “For Freedom” as proof of solidarity with the Belarusian opposition.
Individual evidence
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- ↑ http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/15/025/1502511.pdf
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- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://kissig.blogspot.com/2007/07/denis-denisov-menschenrechte-fr-belarus.html ( Memento from July 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
