The chairman of the Labor Party is the first Hungarian politician to visit the country in person since the re-election of the President of Belarus.

Alexander Lukashenko received the chairman of the Hungarian Labor Party on a forty-minute personal visit, Telex. Gyula Thürmer is the first Hungarian politician to visit Belarus since the elections, which probably misled him in August and has sparked hundreds of thousands of protests since then. According to Thürmer, there is no indication of a wave of protests, “society is pleased with the policy advocated by Lukashenko, who has ruled the country for 26 years, and it can be seen that the protests will soon disappear completely.”

Thürmer’s visit was reported by the Belarusian state news agency. “We, the Labor Party, see ourselves as pioneers, trying to help the country,” said Thürmer, an old acquaintance of Lukashenko. According to the politician, the hard steps of the EU will lead the country to the Russian-Chinese federal system, so who benefits should be considered. Meanwhile, he also stressed that Moscow does not pose a threat to the independence of Belarus.

“Independent Belarus has formed an alliance with Russia. However, this federal state is an equal relationship between two countries. But if external pressure intensifies from the West, if more American troops arrive in the Baltic states and Poland, then policy will have to change, but nobody wants that, ”he said.

According to Thürmer, he did not interpret the Hungarian government’s message to Lukashenko outside, as the Labor Party, which graduated below one percent in 2018, is an independent entity. In his opinion, however, he said: “There is no feeling in the mood of the people, in the street, in the shops, that any change is expected in August. The action of the opposition is exhausted, affecting less and less layers. People work, live their world ”.

According to him, the problem with the protests is that there is no ideology behind them. “There is no religion, no communism, no Marxism. The idea of ​​independence is still alive, which seems little to unite society ”.

The party chairman did not cover the hundreds of protesters who were taken to prison and tortured.


The number of independent publishing offices of power is steadily declining, and those that still exist are trying to stay afloat with a growing headwind. At HVG we persevere, we do not give in to pressure and we bring national and international news every day.

That is why we ask you, our readers, to support us, support us, join our membership and renew it!

And we promise to keep doing our best for you in all circumstances!

Gyula Thürmer's registration as a mayoral candidate was rejected



MTI
At home

It failed to collect the 5,000 valid signatures required for the candidacy.

A hundred days have passed, but the wave of protests in Belarus is coming to an end



András Németh
World

The internal political crisis in Belarus, which erupted due to the fraudulent presidential elections on August 9, is likely to continue for some time, but the identities of the protagonists are changing. The opposition protests are on the brink of extinction, with the fraudulent head of state since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko, no longer fighting the protesters, but Russia: Moscow wants the dissolved ally to be replaced by another credible politician, while Lukashenko wants to buy time.