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The pressured 66-year-old president thus repeats in August a similar, if more vague, proposal on a possible division of power.
But the independent site tut.by also reports that Lukashenko this time made a lengthy argument in which he praised a continuing “vertical power structure.”
– I am in favor of a new constitution. Not because he wants some form of democracy. This is not about democracy. What worries me is that such a constitution cannot be given to a stranger. It will be a disaster.
Russia, allied with the Belarusian government, has officially expressed its support for Lukashenko’s alleged desire to reform the constitution.
But the many protesting against the dictator, who has been in power since 1994, dismisses his statements as a delaying tactic.
Belarus has been rocked for months by protests demanding Lukashenko’s resignation following the highly questionable presidential elections on August 9, when, according to official figures, it received 80 percent of the vote.
