MINSK, June 26. / TASS /. Amendments to the Belarusian constitution may be introduced in the foreseeable future. This opinion was expressed on Friday by President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko while talking with the workforce of the Belaruskali company.
“The constitution is the basic law. We will do it in two years. Several options have already been proposed to me, but they are not good. People are simply afraid to make more drastic changes to the constitution. I think we need to do this,” Lukashenko said, quoted by the agency BelTA. “Even before the adoption of the constitution, we will generally do a lot in terms of transferring powers down to the chairmen of the district executive committees, the governor.”
At the same time, he believes that a return to the 1994 basic law, which is initiated by his rival in the presidential election campaign, Victor Babariko, is a backward movement.
The head of state noted that the 1990s were not the best in the life of the country. “I do not want to return to these times, I do not want you to return there, as it were, some alternative [претенденты на пост президента] did not offer. Maybe someone wants to return it – let it return, just don’t need to talk about reform and moving forward if we are leading the people back, ”he said.
Lukashenko believes that the local authorities should more widely engage in their territories, because “they know better in place.” “With regard to the redistribution of powers at the top – the president, parliament, government – all this should be spelled out in the constitution. It will be adopted at a referendum, we must clearly determine which way we will go. Or we will go the way, as my alternative people suggest today, through privatization, reforms and so on are not with me, I will not go to scrapping the social structure of our country, “the president said.
Change will be civilized
Lukashenko promised Belarusians that the changes will be civilized in the country. “We will go from life. I will not break the country through the knee, privatize, incline people. The hardest thing is when people live in an era of unnecessary changes. Changes will be mandatory, and they must begin and go in a civilized manner, starting from the constitution,” he said . According to the president, he “clearly gave a signal to the authorities that Belarusians will go quietly.” “I won’t go to scrapping the social structure, I won’t go to privatization, for example Belaruskali,” he emphasized. Lukashenko said that such privatization, when “put into your pocket and taken abroad, is unacceptable for him.”
The presidential election in Belarus is scheduled for August 9. In the republic, the collection of signatures on the nomination of candidates has completed; seven applicants have passed them. On suspicion of committing economic crimes and creating a criminal organization in the KGB pre-trial detention center there is a candidate for the highest state post, Viktor Babariko and his son Eduard, who heads the campaign headquarters of the politician. The headquarters immediately after the detention of Victor Babariko published an appeal he had written down earlier in which he proposed holding a referendum in order to return to the 1994 basic law. According to this constitution, the same person could not hold the office of president for more than two terms, and his powers were quite severely limited.
Changes were made to the news (17:37 Moscow time) – information on the text was added.
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