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Basic data
Establishment date: 1997
Chairman: Jauhen Waskowitsch
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Website: malady-front.blogspot.com

Malady Front (Belarusian: Малады Фронт, МФ; "Junge Front", JF; officially registered in the Czech Republic ) is a Belarusian nationalist youth organization. She is a member of the Youth of the European People's Party (YEPP).

history

The youth organization Malady Front was founded in 1997. It united several youth initiatives and organizations. Over time, the Junge Front transformed from a protest movement into a right-centrist organization. In the late 1990s, the association held several mass, information and training campaigns.

Congresses

  • The Organization's I Congress took place on September 6, 1997. Pawel Siewiaryniec ( Minsk ), Siarzhuk Paulenka ( Hrodna ) and Ales Asipcou ( Mahiljou ) were elected co-chairs of the Junge Front .
  • The Second Congress of the JF took place on February 10, 1999. Pawel Siewiaryniec was re-elected as chairman of the organization.
  • The III. Congress took place on July 1, 2000. Again Pawel Siewiaryniec was elected chairman of the JF and a new program was adopted.
  • The 4th Congress was on June 19, 2002. Pawel Siewiaryniec was again elected chairman of the organization.
  • The fifth congress of the JF took place in two sessions on May 23, 2004 and January 23, 2005. Siarzhuk Bachun and Smizer Daschkewitsch were elected co-chairs of the Junge Front .
  • The VI. The JF congress was on March 9, 2008. The renewed strategy of the "Reformation of the Young Front" activity was adopted, according to which the JF left the United Democratic Forces of Belarus . Smizer Daschkewitsch was re-elected.
  • The VII Congress of the Young Front took place on January 30th. A strategy called "New Generation" was launched and Dashkevich was re-elected.
  • At the 8th Congress of the JF on October 26, 2013 Daschkewitsch, Eduard Lobau and Andrus Zjanjut were elected to the board.

goals and tasks

According to its own statements, the goals of the Junge Front include the unification and education of young people on the basis of the Belarusian national idea and Christian-democratic principles, as well as the construction of a civil society based on democracy and the free market, which is involved in the formation of a " mentally and physically strong generation ”.

Furthermore, the organization works for the independence of Belarus, the preservation of the Belarusian language and the national Belarusian symbols (the coat of arms " Pahonia " and the white-red-white flag ). The Young Front is committed to integration into the European Union .

activity

The Junge Front has around 1000 to 1500 members. The highest body is the Congress, which is held at least once every two years.

The Junge Front is a member of the European Democrat Students (EDS, German: European Democratic Students) and Youth of the European People's Party (YEPP, German: Youth of the European People's Party). It maintains partner relationships with other organizations in Ukraine , Sweden , Lithuania , Poland and other countries.

On public holidays and before important events, members of the JF hoist the white-red-white flag throughout Belarus . In 1997, more than 2000 flags were hoisted nationwide in a campaign called “The city is ours!”

In a familiarity rating of various youth organizations from 1999, the Junge Front was 10% behind the BPSM (48%) and the BSM (25%).

During the parliamentary elections in 2000, the Young Front launched a boycott campaign called "Wyraby".

In the 2001 presidential election campaign, the Young Front was the organizer of the Belarusian Youth Congress, which was attended by more than 520 delegates from all over Belarus. During the 2001 presidential election campaign, the Young Front became a key force in the “Vote!” Mobilization campaign. During the election race, the Young Front carried out over 1,100 actions in more than 120 cities in Belarus.

On September 24, 2001, the Young Front began the unprecedented vigil in Kurapaty to protest against the destruction of the national necropolis by the construction of a Minsk motorway ring. More than 120 activists from the Young Front took part in the eight-month uninterrupted "Protection of Kurapaty", which ended with the victory of the youth.

In a survey from the summer of 2002 by the Belarusian weekly newspaper Nascha Niwa (German: “Our field”), the Young Front was one of the five most influential political forces in Belarus - together with the administration of Aljaksandr Lukashenka , the parliament and the two largest opposition parties. The work of the Young Front was valued by government and non-government experts as being very effective.

According to the Baltic Service of the Gellapa Institute in October 2002, the rating of the Young Front among the whole population of Belarus was 6.3%, and among the young people between the ages of 18 and 30 it was 14%.

In 2003 members of the Junge Front took part in the parliamentary elections and won in several districts. In 2004 they took part in the elections to the Chamber of Representatives. The bloc "Young Belarus" founded by the Junge Front entered the Permanent Council of the Democratic Political Parties, and later the ODS (German: United Democratic Forces).

Activists of the organization collected more than 40,000 signatures in support and became a major force opposed to holding the third Lukashenka referendum. The Junge Front organized protests on Kalinouskiplatz (Oktoberplatz) against Lukashenka's intention to change the constitution, for which Zmicier Daschkewitsch was arrested and sentenced to 10 days of administrative imprisonment.

During the presidential election in 2006 , the Junge Front was one of the organizers of the mass protests against election fraud, as well as the "tent town" on Kalinouskiplatz (October Square) from March 20 to 24, 2006. In June 2006, over 100 JF activists led a 24-day event Hunger strike to protest the persecution of activists of the organization.

Part of the members of the organization joined the organizing committee for the formation of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party .

Controversy

On November 5, 2007, several activists of the organization were arrested by the police in Nyasvish after they celebrated the centenary of the birthday of the officer of the Dallwitz airborne battalion Michal Wituschka . The youth organization attracted attention when activists appeared at a demonstration on March 25, 2014 with a banner that read "Heroes don't die". It depicts the controversial personalities Stanislau Bulak-Balachowitsch , Stepan Bandera , Michal Wituschka, Roman Schuchewytsch and Winzent Hadleuski . This was rejected by the Russian ambassador, among others.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j History of the Junge Front on mfront.net (Belarusian)
  2. ↑ Congress of the JF will be continued at the second session (Belarusian)
  3. ↑ Declaration by the EU Presidency on the release of members of the opposition in Belarus ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2007 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eu2007.de
  4. ↑ Niasvizh: Police Detain 'Young Front' Activists for Celebrating Vitushka's Birthday. In: Spring96. November 5, 2007, accessed April 22, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Малады Фронт тлумачыць, каго лічыць героямі , svaboda.mobi (Belarusian)