Coordination Council (Belarus)
The Coordination Council for the Transfer of Power is a non-governmental body created by presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to facilitate a democratic transfer of power in Belarus. The council, founded during the 2020 Belarusian protests in response to the disputed 2020 Belarusian presidential election, has 64 core members with a 7-member leadership presidium.
Five Members of the presidium: Pavel Latushko, Maria Kalesnikava, Olga Kovalkova, Maxim Znak, and Sergei Dylevsky
Tsikhanouskaya with Prime Minister Sanna Marin in Helsinki in 2022
Sviatlana Hieorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya is a Belarusian political activist. After standing as a candidate in the 2020 presidential election against the president Alexander Lukashenko, she has led the political opposition to his authoritarian rule through an oppositional government operating from Lithuania and Poland.
Tsikhanouskaya in 2021
Tsikhanouskaya at a rally in Vitebsk on 24 July 2020
Protests in the center of Minsk, 16 August 2020
Tsikhanouskaya addresses the European Parliament in 2021