
The Belarus ‘election’ raises the question: When will Lukashenka step down?
On Sunday, Aliaksandr Lukashenka ‘won’ his seventh term in office in a rigged election, extending his 30-year reign by another five years. Still ‘only’ 70, this makes him one of the longest-serving heads of state in the world.
The election campaign was, of course, sterile and uneventful. But Lukashenka’s occasional reference to ‘ generational change in the coming years’ bears consideration. These remarks might have been dismissed as mere rhetoric were it not for earlier signals suggesting that a transition of power could soon dominate Belarusian politics.
Over the last three years, Lukashenka has reconfigured the country’s political system to secure his future.… Seguir leyendo »