the combined staffs Svetlana Tikhanovski, Victor Babariko and Valery Tsepkalo held a General press conference. On behalf of the staffs spoke to three women: Tikhanovski as a registered candidate has spoken on their behalf, the team of Victor Babariko was represented by the coordinator, his staff, Maria Kolesnikova and on behalf of Valery Tsepkalo made his wife Veronica. On the eve of the headquarters have joined their efforts to compete with the current leader of the country Alexander Lukashenko in the upcoming elections.
Formally, the joint staff will be created. Kolesnikov and Tsepkalo is not yet included in the list of Trustees Tikhanovski, but in the future do not rule out that such need may arise. Plan to cut area of responsibility and coordinate on key issues. The main forces will be thrown to the agitation and work with citizens.
the Pickets are very tight across the country. Thus, with regard to the calls for protests, according to Kolesnikova, each citizen must decide for himself how he should act. The most important thing is that people came on elections of the President of Belarus on 9 August. Next, you will need to provide each polling station with observers, they recorded a turnout and could have an impact on legitimacy.
the Team has compiled a list of five main points that they want to adhere to. For a start, after the victory will be exempted political and economic prisoners. Then promise to hold another fair election, in which can participate all the alternative candidates. Now their main enemy is not so much a regime as a doubt citizens that an independent candidate can win.
that might happen, “MK” told the experts.
Alexander klaskovsky, a Belarusian political analyst: “social networks are politicized part of women society constantly outraged by the statements of Lukashenko, who, in their opinion, draw the woman a second class citizen. Lukashenka periodically complimenting women in the spirit of toast on March 8, but the refrain really is the idea that a woman can’t be President, since it is too heavy a burden.
in General, he believes that Belarus has no one but him, can not accomplish this task. In the case of women affects also the particularity of his worldview. Lukashenko sees himself like a big man, and women are creatures who are by nature ordered to do household chores.
But the Belarusians, if you rely on personal feelings, much more advanced than the head of state. He lives in a Patriarchal views, and Belarus is fairly westernized, emancipated country. Woman President for Belarusians is not than out of the ordinary.
it is No accident Svetlana Tikhanovski was supported by his wife Valery Tsepkalo and the representative of the headquarters of Viktor Babariko. Three women like throw down the gauntlet Lukashenko is a very strong symbolic gesture. And it was a difficult decision because traditionally, the Belarusian opposition suffered from disunity. Although I think that if this support will greatly strengthen Tikhanovski, in high offices of the Belarusian authorities, nobody will stand on ceremony due to the fact that she is a woman. Can reach up to its withdrawal from the election, and if it seems that she develops a massive enthusiasm among those newly politicized, and decided it was time to change the power.
But in General Tikhanovski can be very difficult to absorb the entire protest electorate. The counting of votes is entirely opaque, and call people out on the street they don’t want. First, Tikhanovski husband in jail, and in the hands of her two children. Second, followers of Babariko and Tsepkalo ironically called the “pink elf”. There really is a lot neophytes – techies, managers, lawyers – who think that through the legislative procedures to bring down the regime. But in Belarus spit on the laws. Apparently, as long as headquarters doesn’t answer the question of what to do in a situation when “against the scrap no reception”.
Valery Karbalevich, a Belarusian political analyst: “the Problem is not so much the Union headquarters, as in the unification of the electorate of Babariko, Tsepkalo and Tikhanovski. If the first two were going to vote for those who wanted to see the President, “effective Manager”, then for a third candidate – those who do not care who wins, just not to Lukashenko. While Tikhanovski initially positioned itself as a technical candidate who participates in the elections only to support her husband.
on the other hand, at the press conference it became known that Tikhanovski its main task after the victory in the presidential election puts the conduct of free and fair elections. This situation, in principle, creates a rational sense of voting for it.
however, the government may remove Tikhanovski, if they consider it too dangerous. Lukashenko should quickly take out the competition. However, other candidates are unlikely to support it. But this may not be required if Tikhanovski will be able to unite around itself most of the protest electorate”.
