Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly

Not to be confused with Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Assembly) or Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly).

Party «Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly» Партыя «Беларуская сацыял-дэмакратычная Грамада» Партия «Белорусская социал-демократическая Грамада»
Abbreviation	BSDH БСДГ
Chairman	Siarhei Cherachen
Deputy Chairman	Anatol Astapienka
Founder	Michail Tkačoŭ (1991) Stanislav Shushkevich (1998)
Founded	21 May 1991 (1991-05-21) 15 February 1998 (1998-02-15)
Banned	15 August 2023 (2023-08-15)
Preceded by	Belarusian Socialist Assembly (self-declared)
Merged into	Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly) (1996–1998)
Headquarters	66th Building, Karl Liebknecht St, Minsk, Belarus. 220013
Membership (2021)	2,930
Ideology	Social democracy Civic nationalism Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Centre-left
Colours	Red   White
Slogan	«We are Belarus! With love to the Motherland» (Belarusian: «Мы — Беларусь! З любоўю да Радзімы»)
Website
bsdg.by
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The Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly (BSDH; Belarusian: Беларуская сацыял-дэмакратычная Грамада; БСДГ, romanized: Biełaruskaja sacyjał-demakratyčnaja Hramada; Russian: Белорусская социал-демократическая Грамада; БСДГ, romanized: Belorusskaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya Gramada; BSDG), commonly shortened to "Hramada" or "The Assembly", is a banned Belarusian social-democratic 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, who has the distinction of having been the first head of state of the Republic of Belarus after its independence from the Soviet Union, 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 Aleh Trusaŭ as a chairman.
• 1992 — Aleh Trusaǔ becomes party chairman.
• 1995 — Formation of the Social Democratic Union with other centre-left parties for the parliamentary election.
• 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 elections.
• 2018 — Siarhiej Čeračań becomes party chairman.

On 15 August 2023, the Supreme Court of Belarus banned the Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election	Candidate	First round		Second round		Result
		Votes	%	Votes	%
1994	Endorsed Stanislav Shushkevich	585,143	9.91%			Lost N
2001	Endorsed Zianon Pazniak	Not admitted to the elections
2006	Endorsed Alaksandar Milinkievič	405,486	6.12%			Lost N
2010	Did not contest
2015
2020	Siarhei Cherachen	66,613	1.14%			Lost N

Legislative elections

Election	Leader	Performance					Rank	Government
		Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
1995	Aleh Trusaŭ				2 / 260	New	5th	Opposition
2000	Stanislav Shushkevich	Boycotted						Extra-parliamentary
2004		59,892	0.98%	New	0 / 110	0	7th	Extra-parliamentary
2008		693	0.01%	0.97	0 / 110	0	9th	Extra-parliamentary
2012		Did not contest						Extra-parliamentary
2016								Extra-parliamentary
2019	Siarhei Cherachen	23,164	0.44%	0.43	0 / 110	0	10th	Extra-parliamentary

See also

• Belarusian Socialist Assembly

External links

• Official website