Pavel Katarzheuski, a political scientist and Trotskyist activist, is a member of the central committee of the left-wing Belarusian Party “A Just World” and one of the leaders of its youth organization.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.