Babruisk Resident: If There Were Fair Elections, Lukashenka Would Have Lost Power Long Ago

• 13.03.2017, 13:46

The protesters demand open elections.

The Charter97.org site reported from the rally in Babruisk in online mode, one of the rally participants told, why Lukashenka had to resign:

– The elections in 1994 were the last fair elections in Belarus. That was the only time I voted for Lukashenka. If we had honest elections in the country, he would have lost power long ago. There is a parable. Once, there was a dragon, who attacked the village, flew down the mountain, offended people. One man came and killed the dragon. But he stayed among its riches and became a dragon himself. Lukashenka became a dragon. We made a huge mistake in 1996, when we allowed him to change the constitution. He is no longer the president – he is a businessman. If a profitable business appears in the country, Lukashenka subjugates it. This was the case when the Euroopt supermarkets, logistics centers appeared. If he is asked: where do you get your gold watch or your maybach, he replies – my friends presented them to me. And if I come to the tax office and say: my friends – businessmen presented it to me. It’s funny, isn’t it?