Ex-Prime Minister of Poland: If it comes to Lukashenka’s ousting – let it be so

Alyaksandr Lukashenka has a reputation of a dictator in the West, and the EU won’t support such kind of partner.

It was stated on July 28 in an interview to IA REGNUM in Warsaw by the former prime minister of Poland, a representative of the Democratic Left Alliance Leszek Miller said commenting on the possibility of the EU’s supporting Belarus in case Moscow would try to evict Alyaksandr Lukashenka from his post.

A said by Miller, the EU is most likely to observer what would be happening between Moscow and Minsk. “If it comes to Lukashenka’s ousting and if a more open candidate and more democratic leader would appear, le it be so,” he noted.

Miller emphasized that the recently noticeable opposition of Minsk to the policy of Moscow won’t help Alyaksandr Lukashenka to change his image in the West. “The EU understands that it sis a situational policy. And secondly, the West won’t risk its relations with Russian for the sake of Belarus,” he stressed.

It should be noted that tensions between Russia and Belarus started amid a gas conflict, which turned into a media war, which aggravated after screening of “Godbatka” film on July 4 on NTV channel, Russia. In this film Lukashenka was not only charged with establishing a dictatorship, but his personal life was discussed in detail as well. In its turn, the Belarusian TV demonstrated little interviews with Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili and Latvian president Valdis Zatlers. A visit of Acting President of Moldova Mihai Ghimpu to Minsk is expected as well. Amid all these developments some experts have a version that Moscow would like to oust Lukashenka, promoting its own candidate instead of Lukashenka in the presidential election.