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“We mustn’t shift our tasks to girls. I love girls, I don’t diminish their position in any respect. But they need to be there for us to lean on, a robust shoulder.”
Lukashenko, who’s operating for one more time period within the nation’s upcoming Jan. 26 presidential election, might have been referring to his rival within the earlier 2020 vote, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.
Tsikhanouskaya ran for president after her husband, a number one opposition candidate, was arrested and jailed throughout that election marketing campaign. The vote sparked mass protests that just about brought about Lukashenko’s downfall — however that have been finally crushed in a brutal Russia-backed marketing campaign to suppress opponents.
Now dwelling in exile, Tsikhanouskaya is the primary face of the pro-democracy opposition. She has urged Belarusians to “reject this farce” as a result of “it’s a sham with no actual electoral course of, carried out in an environment of terror.”
But that doesn’t bother Lukashenko, who additionally claimed in his Thursday remarks that an individual doesn’t turn out to be president however is “born to be president.”
“An individual by nature should have primary qualities that might be helpful to him as president.”
In addition to possessing such qualities, Lukashenko additionally strengthened his energy in January by signing a regulation guaranteeing himself immunity, lifelong safety and state-provided property upon his resignation from the presidency.
