Lukashenka is losing memory

Some statements of Lukashenka at Euronews channel demonstrate serious problems with his memory.

In particular answering the question about the “parliamentary elections’ held last autumn, as a result of which none of the oppositionists was allowed to join the “chamber”, Alyaksandr Lukashenka stated:

“As for the opposition, Europe takes little interest in our opposition. What is this opposition which has, for more than 20 years, been battling it out in central Europe and failed to put a single person in parliament, even with the support of the authorities? .. Nobody is smothering opposition here!”

If Lukashenka has forgotten that, we are ready to remind that he was in power for 15 years. And 20 years ago in 1990, he was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet himself. And he got into the parliament as an oppositionist, by the way.

In 1994 he gave a presidential oath in the Supreme Soviet, he took oath to the Constitution under a white-red-white flag and “Pahonya” emblem, which became national symbols in August 1991.

A year after Lukashenka’s rise to power, in 1995, deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the 12th convocation, the Belarusian Popular Front faction, were beaten up special services officers. MPs announced a hunger strike protesting against the referendum on changing the state symbols and introduction of the Russian language as the official one.

In November 1996 the only legal legislative body of modern Belarus, the Supreme Council, was disbanded. Mandate of the deputies who had been elected for 5 years, was discontinued by Lukashenka. Since then, a decorative body exists in Belarus, the “chamber of representatives”. The first its members were the former deputies of the Supreme Soviet, who wrote an address to Lukashenka and asked to make them “parliamentarians”.

Simultaneously, an opponent of Lukashenka’s regime, Viktar Hanchar, the chairman of the central Elections Committee, was removed from his position. The international community suspects the Belarusian authorities to be implemented in his abduction.

Since 1996 all electoral campaigns in Belarus were found not free and not democratic by the international structures. The chairperson of the Central Election Committee has been banned entry to the EU countries and the US for rigging elections results.