According to
Lukashenko, he will run the next presidential election so that "no one can
later accuse me of being a quitter who ran away in an hour of need".
MINSK, March 1.
/TASS/. Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko will run for another
presidential term, as he himself said at a press conference on Friday.
"Everything will
be fine and in accordance with the law. Given my current situation, the
situation in the country and the people’s attitude towards me, I cannot but stand
as a candidate in the presidential election," he said.
According to
Lukashenko, he will run the next presidential election so that "no one can
later accuse me of being a quitter who ran away in an hour of need," the
Belarusian president noted.
He added that he did
not plan to conduct an election campaign. "My goal is to create equal
conditions for all contenders," he noted. Lukashenko also said that he did
not intend to introduce a hereditary rule in the country. When commenting on
media reports claiming that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin were planning
to unite the two countries and divide the highest positions between themselves,
Lukashenko said that "this is not my first term as president and I have
had enough of it, but I will not ruin the country for my own ambitions or
somebody else’s."
Belarusian Central
Election Commission chief Lidia Yermoshina said earlier that the 2020
presidential and parliamentary elections would not be held simultaneously and
it would be reasonable to launch one of the election campaigns on December 1,
2019. The dates for the elections are expected to be announced in April, when
the president will deliver an address to the parliament.
Source: ITAR-TASS
02-03-2019
