Lukashenko scored three many years in energy final 12 months and his political opponents reported the presidential elections strictly orchestrated on January 26 as farce.
Alexander Lukashenko swore for a seventh consecutive mandate as president of Belarus throughout a ceremony within the capital Minsk.
During the ceremony, Lukashenko made enjoyable of those that name him “the final European dictator” claiming that Belarus has extra democracy “than those that throw themselves as its fashions”.
“Half of the world is dreaming of our” dictatorship “, the dictatorship of actual enterprise and pursuits of our folks,” mentioned Lukashenko in his inauguration speech on the Independence Palace.
Lukashenko scored three many years in energy final 12 months and his political opponents reported the presidential elections strictly orchestrated on January 26 as farce.
The Central Electoral Commission of the Bielorussa introduced that Lukashenko received nearly 87% of the votes after a marketing campaign through which 4 token challengers on the vote praised his area.
Opposition members had been imprisoned or exiled overseas by the repression of Lukashenko on dissent and freedom of speech.
Months of monumental protests that had no precedents within the historical past of the nation of 9 million folks adopted the 2020 elections and pushed the onerous repression.
Over 65,000 folks had been arrested, 1000’s have been overwhelmed by the police and unbiased media and non -governmental organizations had been closed and outlawed, bringing convictions and penalties from the West.
Thousands of supporters of Lukashenko participated in Tuesday’s inauguration ceremony, the place he denounced his critics as international titles that had been in distinction to the folks.
“You haven’t got and you’ll not have public help, you don’t have any future,” he mentioned. “We have extra democracy than those that throw themselves as fashions.”
Belarusian activists say that the nation holds greater than 1,200 political prisoners, together with the Nobel Peace Prize for graduate Ales Bialiatski, founding father of Viasna Human Rights Center.
“The elections occurred in a profound disaster of human rights, within the environment of complete worry attributable to repressions towards civil society, unbiased media, opposition and dissent”, in line with a declaration issued by Viasna and 10 different teams of Belarusian human rights.
They say that Lukashenko’s grip on energy is illegitimate.
Lukashenko has dominated Belarus since 1994, counting on the subsidies and political help of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in workplace for 1 / 4 of a century, an alliance that helped the Belarusian chief to outlive the protests of 2020.
Lukashenko allowed Moscow to make use of the nation’s territory to invade Ukraine in February 2022 and subsequently hosted a few of the tactical nuclear weapons of Russia.
ANNOUNCEMENTThe chief of the opposition in exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who fled Belarus beneath the federal government’s stress after racing towards Lukashenko in 2020, promised to proceed preventing for the liberty of the nation.
“Our objective is to detach itself from the Russian occupation and the tyranny of Lukashenko and return Belarus to the European Nations household,” mentioned Tsikhanouskaya in a speech to the Lithuanian parliament.
Some observers say that Lukashenko might now attempt to restore the ties with the West.
“Lukashenko has already despatched indicators within the West on his promptness to start out a dialogue and his want to normalize the bonds to alleviate complete dependence on the Kremlin and soften the western sanctions throughout his seventh mandate,” mentioned Valery Karbalevich, an unbiased political analyst.
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