Lukashenko recalled how mess in Belarus being coped with and effective management vertical built in 1990s
Following Belarus’ Constitution of 1994, a balanced and effective vertical of power has been built in the country virtually from scratch, though not without attempts by foreign ‘assistants’ to take control of the process – as stated by President Aleksandr Lukashenko at today’s meeting dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus
The Head of State recalled that, in order to control the constitutionality of normative acts in the country, the Constitutional Court was established in Belarus, and the protection of constitutional order was made an essential element of the political system.
“Following the Basic Law, we have built a balanced and effective management vertical almost from scratch. That was done not in a flash and not without emotion. There were also attempts by foreign ‘assistants’ to take control of the process. At present, when talking about the Constitution, we mean a document that reflects our national interests, but this is the situation of our present times,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
The President recalled what had been happening on the streets and in state offices when the novelties of the 1994 Constitution were being written and discussed, when a struggle for portfolios was in full swing, “Think about it. That was a parliamentary republic, there was no country yet. In short, there was no ideology of national development, the goals of that development were not set. There was no control system. No mechanisms for the interaction of structures were developed. That was the reality, and the country was actually governed by 360 deputies, including me, then. The responsibility was absolutely vague, and I witnessed that. Not so many people were, in fact, concerned about empty shelves in stores.”
At the same time, while poverty reigned, Belarus enjoyed rich natural resources and impressive production potential, and wonderful conditions were then created for the privatisation of that wealth by Western capital. The Belarusian leader explained, “The country was in a mess, and Belarusians had no time to think about national interests, about the essence of sovereignty. Nobody actually turned to such notions: people thought of how to feed their children, save jobs and posts. Would the young state have survived then? What chances did we have to preserve our cultural, economic, and political subjectivity? This is a rhetorical question.”
