Belarusian dictator: It’s indecent to demand democratic elections

Lukashenka has made a statement concerning the call of the European Union to hold free and fair election in Belarus.

“I insist that the presidential elections have always been democratic in our country! Why? As the distribution of political forces, the per cents of ballot papers, have always coincided the distribution of forces in our Belarusian political kitchen,” the Belarusian leader said in an interview to Polish media on November 4. “That is why it could not be said that they were not democratic or not very democratic, and now they are more democratic.”

Alyaksandr Lukashenka believes that Belarusians should be left a right to grapple with their internal affairs. “I would like the right to grapple with our internal affairs, including the elections, to be left to us. We have a nation, we have institutions of power. It’s true, we are lagging behind Poland in issues of democracy a little. We may be not as strong state as Poland, but still we have always been a state. May be, but we are full of resolve to be a completely valid state and have a situation not worse than in Poland,” the dictator underlined.

“You know, I must tell you frankly that to arrive and a country and pose a question: “please conduct a democratic election” is not quite decent. But what could be do, after all I have to tolerate that. But I would never go to Poland and said such things, no matter what quarrels you could have there,” he added.

Alyaksandr Lukashenka mentioned how the collection of signatures was held. “If I could tell everything done by us now, when the main stage was taking place, the collection of signatures, how the authorities worked… If I could tell you everything, you would tell that, beyond doubt, not simply a democracy, but the president is taking other candidates by the hand and leads them to the elections,” he said.

“If you want, let’s go, let’s go, but let us do that honestly, without intimidating people that “we would go to the square in tanks and provoke the authorities, shooting” and so on. It’s only a policy of bluff; Belarus is not the country where people could rush to the square smashing down everything. The situation is not like this in Belarus now. Belarusians know very well what is going on in the country, however, they are calling upon that,” the ruler added.