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Leu Marholin: Lukashenka has multiple personality disorder

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Leu Marholin: Lukashenka has multiple personality disorder

Frequent changes in decisions to sell state assets can be explained with Lukashenka's multiple personality disorder.

Economist Leu Marholin spoke to charter97.org about Lukashenka's recent change in mind and his reluctance to begin privatisation of the country's biggest enterprises.

“Psychiatrists call it multiple personality disorder. On the one hand, he says he is ready to sell everything he can and speaks about a high demand for Belarusian enterprises and their assets. On the other hand, he says he won't sell anything, because they want to buy everything for a song. This is the main obstacle for privatisation for the last 20 years. Sometimes he has a desire to sell and the State Property Committee begins to make lists and to approve procedures. But Lukashenka then understands if he remains without property (he considers it to be his own property), he will lose his power. He changes the direction. I think this year and next year won't be exceptions. The policy 'one step forward two steps back' will be continued,” the expert is confident.

The economist thinks the selling price of Belaruskali wasn't objective.

“It's difficult to say about the price of Belaruskali, because prices are set by market. We don't have a market of free business assets. So, prices of our assets can be determined only through an expert assessment in comparison with similar assets in the world. As far as I know, no expert assessment and independent evaluation were carried out, so we cannot say today about the real price of Belaruskali. But of course, its price is not 32 billion dollars, because even in comparison with Urallkali and other companies in the sector we can see that the price was proposed on no grounds. An expert assessment is needed. I think the price is two or three times higher than it should be, but I'd like to say that Belaruskali should be sold only in case of emergency,” Leu Marholin added.

The expert is convinced that foreign investors will hardly buy the company even if they have the necessary sum of money.

“People are ready to risk and even risk their freedom if they are proposed very favourable conditions. Firstly, there are no favourable conditions. Secondly, the example of Baumgertner was a cold shower for those hoping to gain from purchasing Belarusian assets,” Leu Marholin said.

“There's a great demand for Belarusian enterprises. Russia would like to buy something as if it hadn't have its own plants. Why? Because we haven't ruined them. We even turned some of them, for example Belaruskali, into prosperous enterprises,” the Belarusian dictator said yesterday to Keramin employees.

Speaking about privatisation of Belaruskali, the ruler said: “They thought for a long time and said they wanted it. I said: pay 32 billion dollars and buy either the entire company or a part of it. They replied it was expensive. I said bye. They tried another way and failed,” Lukashenka said.

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