Lukashenko: necessary to decide upon invitation of Western observers to elections
During today’s meeting with his proxies, President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko stated the need to decide on the invitation of Western observers to the elections
According to the Head of State, it is necessary to once again decide with the Central Election Commission’s participation whether the country will invite foreign observers. “Everyone says it is clear what they will say. I do not know, there is another point of view as well. If they come, then let all these Westerners arrive. If they do not come, then it is their right. I think we need to think seriously about whether it makes sense for us to refuse something during the current campaign, based on what is happening. Come and see,” the President stated.
Aleksandr Lukashenko added that these people will most likely make statements on the basis of their pre-prepared templates – saying that everything was bad, there was no competition, “No show like in America or somewhere else: there was no shooting, nobody was injured in an ear or head, God forbid – so [everything] was bad. You should understand, however: these are not the ones who command (special decision-making centres command in fact). Those who will come have human features, after all. They will see the real picture in Belarus. True, this is a show for their country, but our elections are a serious event. Believe me, if we had to hold them as a show, we would have arranged them in the way that the whole country would have thundered – but, by inertia, that thunder will roll all the way until July-August, and no one will work. The situation in our country is not the one to rest.”
