Ramanchuk won’t man barricades with stones (Video)

Yaraslau Ramanchuk, a Belarusian presidential candidate, the deputy head of the United Civil Party, called on the voters to “choose changes”.

“I offer a programme of changes in Belarus. The changes for better,” he promised the voters in his TV presentation on Thursday. According to the candidate, the current social and economic model lacked “justice in distribution of work”. “Everyone has what he deserves, but sometimes people use someone else’s merits,” the candidate joked. Quoting a popular wisdom, Yaraslau Ramanchuk noted the people of Belarus “cannot resist outrage and that’s why get used to it,” Interfax-Zapad news agency informs.

Ramanchuk started his speech with a proverb: “Do not argue with your boss if you don’t want to lose your money.” “But I decided to argue,” the candidate said.

He admitted that he had started violating the Soviet laws when he had been seven years old: asked by his mother, he “washed a tank at a milk processing plant”. Rather heavily-built workers couldn’t get inside the tank themselves and paid Ramanchuk one ruble each to do the work. So, Ramanchuk bought his first bicycle and first watch.

According to the candidate, Belarus deserves to have state-of-the-art technologies and go ahead with global leaders, not just be happy with the absence of war.

Ramanchuk thinks the slogan of his programme “Build the new preserving the best” is a new national idea. He placed a poster and a stand with this motto on his table and behind himself. Ramanchuk showed a cap of BATE football club and said that team was an example of successful management “without the state plan, without state money”. He also demonstrated two potatoes, from Morocco and Belarus, to illustrate a problem of high costs of domestic products and low prices on similar foreign products, BelaPAN reports.

Ramanchuk also said: “We are not rebels, we stand against manning barricades having a stone in the hand. We stand for a dialogue with the business and the state.”

In his opinion, Belarus becomes be happier when Belarusians will begin to travel round Europe without visas, when the country will start free trading with the whole world, when it will put an end to self-isolation, release political prisoners, give freedom to the media, secure the right for a free choice.