Alexei Yanukevich, 33, has become the new chair of the opposition BPF Party (known as the Belarusian Popular Front since 1993).
A total of 318 party members took part in the ballot; 174 of them
voted for Yanukevich and 144 for former party chairman Lyavon
Borshchevsky, 52.
“Yanukevich and his supporters are under the influence of opposition
politician Alexander Milinkevich,” Borshchevsky told Interfax after his
defeat.
Former BPF deputy chair Vintsuk Vecherko described the ballot as a
‘raider attack’ and called for “forming a committee to save the party
from annihilation.”
