Vasilevich didn’t summoned Lukashenka for questioning
32- 9.11.2009, 14:43
The General Prosecutor’s Office doesn’t have information about rigging the results of the presidential elections 2006.
As BelaPAN reports, an answer to the request of Belarusian opposition politicians and public figures on rigging the presidential election results by Lukashenka says: the General Prosecutor’s Office does not have any documentary data on electoral fraud in 2006.
The letter, signed by Prosecutor General Ryhor Vasilevich says the prosecutor’s office “does not have any data about violations the norms of the Electoral Code during the vote count and announcing the lection results.”
The request of the opposition politicians and public figures asking to instigate a criminal case over Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s statement on rigging the presidential election results in 2006 was sent to the General Prosecutor’s Office on October 24.
The request was signed by former presidential candidate Alyaksandr Kazulin, head of the United Civil Party Anatol Lyabedzka, former chairman of the Supreme Council Mechyslau Hryb, film directors Viktar Dashuk and Yury Khashchavatski, trade union leaders Alyaksandr Yarashuk and Alyaksandr Bukhvostau, politicians Syarhei Kalyakin, Vintsuk Vyachorka, Mikalai Statkevich, Viktar Ivashkevich, Yaraslau Ramanchuk and others.
A reason for the request was Lukashenka’s statement in his interview to Russian “Izvestia” on August 27: “Ninety-three percent voted for me in the last election. I then admitted when coming under pressure that we had falsified the election results. I said bluntly. <...> I ordered that the 93 percent should be replaced with something around 80 percent. I don’t remember exactly how much. Because it is psychologically hard to accept a percentage higher than 90. But this is true.”
“That is the second time Alyaksandr Lukashenka has publicly revealed that elections in Belarus were rigged. That is why his words cannot be ignored by law-enforcement agencies, the Belarusian people and the international public,” the petition says.
“We asked to investigate the situation taking into account Lukashenka’s statement,” Anatol Lyabedzka noted. “Vasilevich must have been summoned Lukashenka and ask him whom, when and with what purpose the latter gave an order to change the voting results. Unfortunately, this wasn’t done. This gives a reason to state that election results in local and presidential elections in 2010 and 2011 will be rigged again.”
