Former presidential candidate in Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovskaya does not plan to run for head of state if new elections are called in the country. She stated this on Friday in an interview with the Belsat TV channel.
“I don’t plan on my own,” Tikhanovskaya replied to a journalist’s question about whether she or her husband, Sergei Tikhanovsky, would nominate themselves if new presidential elections in Belarus were called.
Meanwhile, according to Reuters, the US First Deputy Secretary of State is to visit Russia and Lithuania soon to discuss the situation in Belarus.
The current head of state, Alexander Lukashenko, won the election with 80% of the vote. 10% of voters voted for the housewife Tikhanovskaya. Immediately after summing up the results in Belarus mass protests beganthat escalated into clashes with law enforcement officers. Tikhanovskaya left Belarus and is now in Lithuania.
According to the independent political scientist Sergei Mikheev, at this stage, the West is merging the Belarusian opposition, because it started for health, but ends poorly.
“It didn’t work out right away; the armed version, most likely, will not work; the opposition lost rather than won a military confrontation on the street; the opposition leaders are weak, they have practically no positive program.” Lukashenka, go away “and so on are not news but even this topic they cannot put the squeeze on to the end, because, for example, they demand re-elections and immediately say that, in principle, Lukashenka can also participate in them, “Sergei Mikheev said in the” Iron Logic “program on VestiFM radio (broadcast from 08.21.).
“Two days ago, the coordination council of the opposition called for a general strike, but it did not start. The siloviki are urged to go over to the side of the opposition and refuse to obey orders, but this does not happen. That is, after the first two or three days of shock, Lukashenka comes to his senses, what he did was he gave up all sorts of flirting for a while and turned to Russia for help, “the political scientist noted.
According to him, the position of the Western countries suggests that the work that the President of the Russian Federation did Vladimir Putinspeaking with Angela Merkel (FRG) and Emmanuel Macron (France), had a decisive impact on changing the situation.
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