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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, in a meeting with opponents in the KGB jail, vowed not to run for president any more. According to the Belarusian opposition leader Yuri Voskresensky, he told all the participants of the round table that he had eaten the presidency.
Alexander Lukashenko has promised not to run for the presidency of Belarus any more. The businessman and political scientist Yuri Voskresensky spoke about this in an interview with the TUT.BY portal, which was published on October 20.
Voskresensky was at a meeting between Lukashenka and opponents at the KGB remand center. He was released on October 11, the day after his meeting with Lukashenka. Before that, Voskresensky spent two months in a remand center accused of participating in mass disturbances.
“Is he [Лукашенко] gave his word to all the participants of the round table that was full of the presidency, that this is his last term. I believe you, after all, I have an anti-crisis manager diploma, and I feel those moments. He said that he was building Belarus the way he saw it, that he didn’t think he was doing it wrong – he cleaned up all the small cities, preserved their industrial potential and asked to improve the situation – to consolidate democratic changes in the basic law, ”he said. Voskresensky.
“Because I know that there may no longer be a president like me, honest, sincere and not corrupt,” says Lukashenka, quoting Voskresensky.
Voskresensky could not answer the portal’s journalist’s question about whether he had the feeling that Lukashenka had turned the country into a gulag.
Lukashenko visited the KGB pre-trial detention center on October 10, where he held a four-hour meeting with the detained opposition representatives. It was attended by Belarusian-American political strategist Vitaly Shklyarov, former head of Belgazprombank Viktor Babariko, his son Eduard, member of the presidium of the opposition coordination council Lilia Vlasova, and other political prisoners.
That day, for the first time in 134 days, Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was allowed to speak by phone with her husband, who was arrested for “disturbing public order” at the picket line.
After the meeting, the director of the information technology company PandaDoc Dmitry Rabtsevich and the political scientist Yuri Voskresensky changed the measure restricting the detention to house arrest.
In addition, Belarusian lawyer Ilya Salei and Vlasova were released. Belarusian opponent Maria Kolesnikova refused to meet with Lukashenko.
Mass protests have been going on across Belarus since August 9. The protesters believe that the results of the presidential elections were falsified. According to official data, Lukashenka won with 80.1% of the voters. Tikhanovskaya ranked second with 10.1% of the vote. At the same time, alternative exit polls showed the opposite picture: Tikhanovskaya’s confident victory.
The Belarusian security forces violently dispersed the demonstrations, in particular with the use of stun grenades, rubber bullets and water cannons. According to official figures, four protesters died.
Lukashenka became president for the sixth time on September 23. The opening ceremony was held in secret at the Minsk Independence Palace. For the first time in the history of Belarus, it was neither announced nor broadcast on television.
Several states, including the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Denmark, Ukraine and the Czech Republic, did not recognize Lukashenko’s inauguration.
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