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List of political parties in Belarus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ1861453 ↗
Source-derived summary

This article lists political parties in Belarus.

Officially registered parties

According to the "press service of the president of Belarus" only four parties are officially registered:

Parties that have never been registered

Deregistered parties

Political movements

Historical parties and movements (1991–present)

Soviet parties (1918–1991)

CPB

Clandestine parties

Independence parties (1917–1918)

See also

List of political parties by country

Politics of Belarus

References

External links

List of political parties from the Ministry of Justice (in Russian)

Political Parties In Belarus - Do They Really Matter?

Opposition Reshaping: Where Will It Lead?

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This entry incorporates text from “List of political parties in Belarus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.