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Harry Pahanyaila: Lukashenka Suffers from Mental Disorder and Is Unable to Assess the Situation

Harry Pahanyaila: Lukashenka Suffers from Mental Disorder and Is Unable to Assess the Situation
Harry Pahanyaila

The patient needs help.

On 14 July thousands of people took to the streets in Minsk and other cities of Belarus after the CEC refusal to register alternative presidential candidates Viktar Babaryka and Valery Tsepkala. On 15 July the protest actions re-occurred.

Charter97.org talked to Harry Pahanyaila, head of the legal commission of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, about the current state of the Belarusian society and authorities.

- Harry Piatrovich, could anything like that happen before? What is the peculiarity of the current situation in Belarus?

- First of all, it is a special election campaign when Lukashenka makes a lot of obvious mistakes. Citizens can see his behaviour and inadequate reaction to certain situations, including those related to the country, the economy, the personnel, social problems. When I speculate on social problems, I mean the coronavirus epidemic. Although it is a medical factor, it has a huge social component.

The country's economic climate is deteriorating right in front of our eyes. Lukashenka has fallen out with his main ally - the government of the Russian Federation and some other EEU countries. There are no good relations with the West either. The financial situation is depressing and risks collapsing, no matter what central television and state-owned newspapers say.

Low salaries, lack of good jobs and social instability aggravate the internal situation. The number of impoverished, homeless, splitting-up families, alcohol addicted and transport-caused suicides, on-the-job injuries is increasing.

All this has aggravated during the election campaign because Lukashenka does not offer solutions to these problems. He blatantly and cynically lies to the people, jam tomorrow. It has long been known that he is a sick person. He proves this with his maniacal thirst for power. He shows disrespect towards his officials. To say nothing of ordinary people.

In general, he overstepped the line and the reaction of the people followed immediately. This means that the people have nothing more to lose.

- Can this situation be called revolutionary?

- Some classical facts indicate this if we recall a well-known phrase by Vladimir Ilyich "the bottoms don't want and the tops cannot live in the old way". This is true.

Lukashenka has not offered any reforms for 26 years. He had carte blanche, the maximum trust when he was elected in 1994.

At that time, against the background of dissatisfaction with the former Soviet nomenclature, Lukashenka was a loser both in life and in his work.

He brought the country and people back to the Soviet past. We have been watching his public behaviour for a long time enough to make sure that this man was afraid and is afraid of everything new. He is captured by the past he was formed in. He strictly rejects any innovations.

Now the ruler has strong and clever rivals, who can offer voters specific ways to bring the country out of the swamp Lukashenka brought in. They have a modern view of the constitutional organization of the state. They are very competent people who are ready to offer reforms in economic areas.

Lukashenka knows that "elections" are a fig leaf, but even the possibility of campaigning by strong opponents scared him to death. After all, these people can present Lukashenka with a bill and become an alternative to him. Feeling threatened, he ordered to arrest Siarhei Tsikhanouski, then Viktar Babaryka and his son. Then the persecution of Valery Tsepkala also began. When two strong candidates were not registered, the citizens were outraged. These events prove Lukashenka's inadequacy, his inability to assess the situation.

I have always claimed that he was mentally ill. This is not my conclusion, I am not a psychiatrist. There is evidence, documents, which have never been refuted in our state. This is the condition of a sick man who has lost his guidelines, but who longs for power by committing another state crime. It proves that today Lukashenka is completely illegitimate.

- Independent polls show a dramatic drop in Lukashenka's rating. He has already been nicknamed "Sasha 3%". What is the reason for such a collapse?

- The split between him and the Belarusian society began a long time ago. It was back in 1995, and it affected many categories of our citizens. Lukashenka exploits the phrase that "Belarus is a social state," while he reduced all benefits, took away the prospect of many people who wanted to live, study and work here. He's deprived people's aspiration to join the civil service because many people see how he treats them. He humiliates them, sets a strict executive discipline. Many people are tired of this.

I do not mention the extrajudicial executions of his opponents. We know what he did to them. The very failure to investigate these crimes for 20 years is already indicative. The truth always comes afloat. One can at least remember the situation with Yury Garavsky, who confessed to the crimes.

Let's go back to the latest events: instead of an adequate response to the epidemic, Lukashenka declared "corona-based insanity". This is a wrong perception of the situation by the sickest person. The issue of mental well-being of such a person, who seeks a high position, is a public and legitimate interest of our citizens.

Lukashenka's behaviour at public events is inadequate. His rhetoric suggests that we deal with a very sick man. People who study investigative psychiatry know what I mean.

During an election campaign, the CEC should offer Lukashenka to pass a medical examination and publish an opinion on his health state. By the way, according to the Constitution, we have a reason to dismiss the president if he cannot stay in office due to his health condition. After all, it threatens the security of the state and people.

According to age, Lukashenka is a pensioner. However, a psychiatric examination by specialist Shchigelski was made long before these events. It has not been officially refuted by state medical services or law enforcement agencies. The disease described by Dr Shchigelski can aggravate with age.

Lukashenka behaves like an uneducated and politically illiterate person. People are fed up with such behaviour.

He can no longer rule the country. His time has gone. He'll never realize it because of his painful condition.

Let our "historian", though with a sick head, read both history textbooks and learn how approaches he practices end.

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