The Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly (BSDH; be, Беларуская сацыял-дэмакратычная Грамада; БСДГ, Bielaruskaja sacyjal-demakratyčnaja Hramada; russian: Белорусская социал-демократическая Грамада; БСДГ, Belorusskaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya Gramada; BSDG), commonly shortened to "Hramada" or "The Assembly", is a

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...

ian

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political party. Businessman Siarhiej Čeračań has been the leader of the party since October 2018.

Leadership

The previous head of the party from 1998 to 2018 was

Stanislav Shushkevich Stanislav Stanislavovich Shushkevich ( be, Станісла́ў Станісла́вавіч Шушке́віч, translit=Stanisłáŭ Stanisłávavič Šuškiévič,; russian: Станисла́в Станисла́вович Шушке́вич; ...

, who has the distinction of having been the first head of state of the Republic of Belarus after its independence from the

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, between 1991 and 1994. After running unsuccessfully for president in the 1994 election, he did not participate in politics again until helping to form the party in 1998. In 2004 he was not allowed to register as a candidate and so in the 2010 presidential election he was a supporter of candidate Andrei Sannikov.

History

* 1991 — Creation of the Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly, with

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as a chairman. * 1992 — Aleh Trusaǔ becomes party chairman. * 1996 — Association with Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord, formation of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly). * 1998 — Reconstruction of the Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly, Stanisłaŭ Šuškievič becomes chairman. * 2016 — The party boycotts the

2016 Belarusian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Belarus on 11 September 2016. Electoral system The 110 members of the House of Representatives were previously elected using the two-round system. However, a new electoral code was introduced in 2013, aboli ...

s. * 2018 — Siarhiej Čeračań becomes party chairman.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Legislative elections

References

External links

* 1991 establishments in Belarus Political parties established in 1991 Political parties in Belarus Pro-European political parties in Belarus Social democratic parties in Belarus {{Europe-socialist-party-stub