Lukashenka promised to abstain from holding preliminary president election
17.10.2014 |Politics| EuroBelarus Information Service,
The forthcoming president election won’t be held in March 2015, Aliaksandr Lukashenka announced.
While considering personnel problems, Lukashenka marked that from now on the implementation of decisions will continue enjoying closest attention.
“This way of doing things will continue regardless of whether we have elections on our hands or not. No need to adjust your decisions with that factor in mind. You have to remember that it is an exam and all of us will have to sit this exam, - the president press service quotes him saying. – But we are not going to change our decisions to suit the election. I am getting proposals, including proposals from some opposition figures, in favor of holding the election in March instead of November 2015 because the approval rating of the incumbent president is nearly 90%. It would be deception of our voters and the population. We cannot do it. Moreover, we cannot expose ourselves to criticism like that”.
According to Lukashenka, “we will come out and say frankly what we have managed to achieve. If we haven't managed to do something, we will do it”. “Belarusians will be free to cast their votes. They will be free to elect another person. Everything must be honest. It is what we should bear in mind instead of changing our policy bearing the elections in mind. Life goes on the way it is intended,” stressed the President. “We should base our policy on honesty and justice. We need nothing else. Honesty and justice are not purely psychological notions now but economic ones,” he said.
Let us recall that the Liberal Democratic Party suggested holding president elections in spring instead of November 2015.
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