Siarhei Uladzimiravich Cherachen ( be, Сярге́й Уладзі́міравіч Чэ́рачэнь, also known as Sergey Vladimirovich Cherechen russian: Сергей Владимирович Черечень; born 8 May 1985) is a Belarusian businessman, politician and candidate in the

2020 Belarusian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Belarus on Sunday, 9 August 2020. Early voting began on 4 August and ran until 8 August. Incumbent Alexander Lukashenko was announced by the Central Election Commission (CEC) to have won a sixth term in offi ...

. He is the current chairman of the Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly.

Biography

Cherachen was born on 8 May 1985 in the late Soviet era in Krychaw, Mogilev. He grew up and raised up in Mogilev where he also completed his primary and secondary education.

Career

He graduated from the Belarusian State University in the field of

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and radio electronics. After his graduation, he pursued his career in business and later joined the mainstream politics. He joined the

Communist Party of Belarus The Communist Party of Belarus (CPB; russian: Коммунисти́ческая па́ртия Белару́си, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Belarusi; be, Камуністы́чная па́ртыя Белару́сі, Kamunistyčnaja Partyja B ...

and was also nominated as a candidate for the

House of Representatives of Belarus The House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus (; ) is the lower house of the parliament of Belarus, while the upper house is the Council of the Republic. It was established after the Constitution of Belaru ...

but was not elected.

2020 presidential election

On 12 January 2020, he was nominated as a presidential candidate from the party for the

. On 10 August 2020, the election results were released and Cherachen received the fewest votes among the five candidates, with a total valid vote count of 1.15%.

References

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