The League’s vote on Belarus is a coincidence: the party abstains in condemning Lukashenko. The Pd: “How disgusting”

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Belarus, the European Parliament does not recognize Lukashenko and calls for new elections

In Brussels, MEPs decided not to recognize Lukashenko as president of Belarus, acknowledging that the elections violated “all internationally recognized standards”. So yes to the sanctions against the authorities responsible for the violence against those who protested in recent weeks: to make them effective, however, we need the green light from the council (and therefore from the union member states). On the abstention of the League, the condemnation of the Democratic Party comes immediately: “In Brussels the League abstained from the condemnation of a dictator, how disgusting”, tweets the secretary dem Zingaretti.

MP Filippo Sensi highlights that among the League’s MEPs there is also Susanna Ceccardi, the candidate of the center-right in Tuscany, the region most in balance in the next regionals. “To make it clear which side to lean on,” she says.

And the head of delegation in the European Parliament Brando Benifei: “Salvini is the best ally of the worst dictators: having given political support to Orban on numerous occasions, he now refuses to condemn the Belarusian regime so as not to upset Putin.”