Belarusian Peoples Front

Belarusian People's Front was the most active opposition party of Belarus in the first half of the 1990s. The Belarusian People's Front is also famous as the Belarusian Popular Front or the BPF. This political party of Belarus was established in the October of 1989. Zyanon Paznyak was the first chairman of Belarusian People's Front. The Belarusian People's Front even declared itself as a movement which was open to any individual or any political party to join.

The Belarusian People's Front is even open to the communists, however, with a condition that those who would join the party should definitely share the same goal. The main goal of the Belarusian Popular Front is to achieve entirely independent and a democratic Belarus. There are many critics who point out the fact that the Belarusian People's Front was among the parties which tried to acquire political power with its "shadow cabinet", remaining all the time engaged in the parliamentary politics.



Notwithstanding the comments of the critics, Stainslaw Shushkyevich claimed in 1993 that apart from the sixty percent of the population of Belarus that did not support any kind of political parties, almost 3.8 percent people favored the Belarusian People's Front. The influence of other parties was comparatively on a much lower side.