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Belarusian ruler Lukashenko spoke with opposition prisoners. The constitution is said to have been discussed. There was criticism from the opposition to the meeting.
In Belarus, the ruler Alexander Lukashenko met with several opposition prisoners and members of the Coordination Council. The conversation in the remand prison of the KGB secret service lasted four and a half hours, reported the Telegram channel “Pul Pervogo”, which is affiliated with Belarusian state television.
Spoke of constitution
The channel broadcast a short excerpt from the meeting. “Our country lives by the motto of being open to dialogue,” said Lukashenko, who had refused to speak to the opposition since the controversial presidential elections. “Half of you here are lawyers and you know that the constitution is not written on the street.” He tries to convince opposition supporters and the entire Belarusian society that we have to “look at the problem more broadly”.
The opposition portal “Nexta” also reported that possible changes to the constitution had been discussed. The most prominent opposition participant in the meeting was the bank director and politician Viktor Babariko. The 56-year-old wanted to compete against Lukashenko in the presidential election, but ended up in jail before the election campaign could really begin.
Criticism of conversations in prison
Meanwhile, the Telegram channel of opposition leader Svetlana Tichanovskaya announced that she could call her imprisoned husband Sergei Tichanovsky for the first time in months. It was their first conversation since his arrest in May.
Tichanovskaya assessed Lukashenko’s appearance in the KGB prison as a result of increasing social pressure on the ruler. At the meeting, Lukashenko admitted that the opposition, whom he had previously described as criminals, were political prisoners. “You don’t have a dialogue in a prison cell.” If Lukashenko had wanted to show his willingness to enter into a dialogue, he would have freed the opposition. Sergei Latuschko of the Coordination Council said that a round table at the detention center was “absurd”.
