Komorowski's adviser: “Election” in Belarus is makeup on dictatorship's face

An adviser to the Polish president comments on the course of the “election” in Belarus.

“The Sunday election in Belarus is makeup on the face of the dictatorship,” Tomasz Nalecz, an adviser to the Polish president, said about the Belarusian “parliamentary election” to journalists. He stressed he didn't expect much from it.

“The election organized by the dictator in dictatorial conditions is makeup on the bad looking face of the dictatorship. It is so and it will be so with this election. The problem of Belarus is the dictatorship. No makeup is able to change the expression of this dictatorial face,” Nalecz said.

Belarus has the election to the lower house of the “parliament” on Sunday. The opposition proposed about 130 candidates at the start of the campaign, but two biggest opposition parties – the Belarusian Popular Front and the United Civil Party – withdrew their candidates on September 15. They say it was done due to refusal to include their members in election commissions and political prisoners in the country.