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Six of the seven members of the Presidium of the Belarusian Opposition Coordination Council were arrested, left Belarus under pressure or were removed from the country against their will.
Belarus continues to protest Alexander Lukashenko and is imprisoning more or less prominent representatives of the protest movement. In recent days, the country has completely defeated the Coordination Council of the protesters, created to negotiate with the authorities.
Only the writer and Nobel laureate Svetlana Aleksievich remained at large in Belarus, but she has already been summoned for questioning in the Investigation Committee, and on 9 September the security forces rushed to her home.
Correspondent.net monitors the situation in Belarus.
Defeat of the Coordination Council
Maria Kolesnikova, a member of the Presidium of the Belarusian opposition Coordination Council (CC), who was forcibly expelled to Ukraine, is now in prison number 1 in Minsk.
She is a suspect in the case of the calls to take power, faces two to five years in prison.
Maksim Znak, a member of the Opposition Coordination Council, was arrested on the morning of 9 September.
The last non-detained representative of the Coordination Council was the writer Svetlana Aleksievich. She, on Wednesday, complained about ringing and mobile phone calls from unknown numbers.
Immediately at the writer’s house, European diplomats gathered to avoid her arrest. Ambassadors from Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Slovakia and the Czech Republic came to visit Alekseevich.
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European ambassadors at Alexievich’s home
“It was not the Coordination Council that rebelled. The country rebelled … We did not prepare a coup. We wanted to avoid a split in our country. We wanted a dialogue in society. Lukashenka says that he will not speak in the street, and the street is hundreds of thousands. ” people who go weekly and every day. This is not a street, it is the people, “Aleksievich said.
According to her, they are now getting “the best of us,” but hundreds more will take their places.
Lukashenka has a plan
The Minsk official presented to the OSCE and Moscow his version of the settlement of the political crisis, which continues in the country. According to him, the constitutional reform in the country will take place until 2022. And then it will be possible to hold new elections.
The constitutional reform is designed to “ensure the liberalization of the political system”, part of the powers of the president must be transferred to parliament.
In addition, the party system has also changed: the role of parties will increase and changes will be made in electoral legislation. All changes must be submitted to a referendum.
After the constitutional reform, it is proposed to carry out general re-elections.
The draft amendments to the Constitution are now ready, it was developed by the judges of the Constitutional Court under the leadership of the Vice President of the Constitutional Court Natalya Karpovich, but Lukashenka has not yet approved it.
According to sources, the issue of early presidential and parliamentary elections until 2022 was also discussed in the talks between the foreign ministers of Russia and Belarus in Moscow on September 3. The latter told his Russian colleague that in this way the authorities will come out of the country’s political crisis.
What the West says
The United States is considering introducing personal sanctions against those involved in human rights violations and repression in Belarus, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.
“We greatly appreciate the courage of Maria Kolesnikova and the Belarusian people, who peacefully defend their right to choose their leaders in free and fair elections, in the face of unjustified violence and repression by the Belarusian authorities, including the blatant beatings of protesters. peaceful in broad daylight and hundreds of arrests on September 6. ” and more and more frequent reports of kidnappings, “Pompeo said.
The United States also called on the Belarusian authorities to end the violence against their own people, release all those unjustly detained, and enter into a constructive dialogue with real representatives of Belarusian society.
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Maria Peichinovich-Burich, expressed her serious concern over recent events in Belarus, stating that “there is a danger that the country will slide into a state of anarchy and political repression.”
Meanwhile, the West is still concerned in mid-September in Belarus, they will carry out the Slavic Brotherhood anti-terrorism tactical exercises – 2020 with the participation of Serbian and Russian military.
The exercise participants will arrive in Belarus from September 10 to 15. The exercises will be attended by units from the Armed Forces of Belarus, Russia and Serbia, which will form a multinational tactical group.
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