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It has not been announced in advance that Lukashenko, whom the West no longer recognizes as the legitimate president of Belarus, will take office on Wednesday. But it happened in the Palace of Independence.
After placing his right hand on the Constitution, Lukashenko was sworn in in Belarusian. Later, the president of the Central Election Commission, Lydia Yermoshina, who said that there was no massive falsification of the election results, presented him with a certificate from the President of the Republic of Belarus.
According to BelTA, several hundred people were invited to the opening ceremony, including senior officials, parliamentarians, heads of state structures and organizations, heads of state media, representatives of science, culture and sports.
“We have not only elected the president of the country, we have defended our values, our peaceful life, our sovereignty and our independence. Much remains to be done in this regard, “Lukashenko said during the inauguration, according to the president’s press service.
VIDEO: Under the cloak of secrecy: Lukashenko was sworn in as president for the sixth time in Minsk
He added, as usual, that a “color revolution” was supposedly being organized: “But our country is perhaps the only one in which it has not taken place. And this is the choice of Belarusians who do not want to lose status.”
“I cannot, I have no right to abandon the Belarusians, who linked not only their political choices but also their fate and the future of their children to the course of the state,” Lukashenko said.
The ceremony took place in secret. Neither the ministers nor the ambassadors of other countries contacted by the portal on Wednesday morning Tut. By, I had not heard that the inauguration was scheduled for September 23.
But the people of Minsk in the morning have already seen more barricades of military equipment and militiamen than usual in the Palace of Independence. Central streets and avenues were closed. Soon, the column of presidential cars whistled in the center.
Not only that, although the opening ceremony is required by law to air on state radio and television, the series airs on Wednesday.
In Belarus there have been unprecedented protests for more than a month over the presidential elections on August 9, which Lukashenko has ruled the country since 1994. The opposition and western countries consider these elections to be rigged.
People have now started choosing Minsk, a spontaneous protest against Lukashenko’s inauguration.
Lukashenko was soon sworn in to the country’s army.
“Belarusian soldiers have pledged allegiance to the people and the president today after the inauguration ceremony of President Aliaksandr Lukashenko,” the state news agency BelTA reported.
Representatives of various parts of the army who participated in the investiture ceremony swore that they would be “always ready to reliably defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Homeland.”
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