The “elections” took place, the attendance was good, and the main character triumphes. In Belarus, everything is consistent with the script. It will be the seventh term of office of Aleksander Lukashenko. Support for him is not 100 %, but he is close. “This is all 100 % fiction,” says the Belarusian opposition, and commentators pay attention to the incident in front of the polling station.
What the members of the election committees found in the urns had no influence on the result of Alaksander Lukashenko. They could not even count the votes. Support for the dictator was to be record -breaking. He determined it himself.
– Committees enter the needed result: 70, 80 percent. Later, reports go upstairs, and already in the Central Electoral Committee decide how to write exactly it: 80 percent or 86 percent – explains Dr. PaweÅ‚ Usow, a political scientist at the Study of Eastern Europe of the University of Warsaw.
“What is done in Belarus is a crib”Tvn24
“Power persists thanks to repression”
Favorite dog of the dictator, with whom Lukashenko came to vote, at the entrance he arranged a physiological need, what – how commentators laugh – he best gave the ruler's attitude to the election. Belarusians had no one to choose anyway – the opponents of Lukashenko are in prison or escaped abroad, and those who remained can go behind bars at any time.
– Power persists thanks to repression, torture and detention. For the first time we had an army with rifles patrolling the streets. And this was the next step in intimidating society – notes AleÅ› Zarembiuk, president of the “Dom Belarusian” Foundation in Warsaw.
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Symptomatic that Lukashence congratulated the victories of the dictators of Russia, China and Venezuela. The European Union, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand and Australia in a joint statement decided that voting was fiction.
“Only 87.6 percent of Belarusians love their Baćka? Will the rest fit in prisons?” – commented On the website X, the Minister of Foreign Affairs RadosÅ‚aw Sikorski.
Brutally suppressed protests from five years ago
Five years ago, after the forged elections, huge protests broke out, ultimately brutally suppressed. Most of those who manifested at the time had to run away from the country. It is estimated that it can be up to half a million people. Almost 1,300 people are political prisoners. There may be many more. Among them is the Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut.
– Lukashenko knows that Poland and Poles are very keen to release Andrzej Poczobut. Here, both the previous government and the current government, everyone is trying – admits AleÅ› Zarembiuk.
Solidarity action with Andrzej Poczobut in Bialystok Tvn24
Experts estimate that nothing will change in Belarus as long as the Kremlin supports Lukashenko.
Source of the main photo: Reuters