An almost unanimous vote: 574 yes, 37 no and 82 abstentions on sanctions for the Belarusian authorities. The European Parliament was united in its request to the other institutions of the Union. But with an important defection on the Italian political level: the abstention of the League.
Belarus, the European Parliament does not recognize Lukashenko and calls for new elections
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In Brussels, MEPs decided not to recognize Lukashenko as the president of Belarus, acknowledging that the elections violated “all internationally recognized standards”. So yes to the sanctions for the authorities responsible for the violence against those who protested in recent weeks: to make them effective, however, we need the green light of the council (and therefore of the member states of the union). On the abstention of the League, the condemnation of the Democratic Party immediately arrives: “In Brussels the League abstained on the condemnation of a dictator, how disgusting”, tweets the secretary dem Zingaretti.
In Brussels, the League abstained on the sentence to a dictator. How disgusting. #Lukashenko
– Nicola Zingaretti (@nzingaretti) September 17, 2020
Deputy Filippo Sensi stresses that Susanna Ceccardi, the candidate of the center-right in Tuscany, the region more in the balance in the next regional ones, is among the League’s MEPs. “So that it is clear which side to stand on,” he says.
And the head of delegation to the European Parliament Brando Benifei: “Salvini is the best ally of the worst dictators: after having provided political support to Orban on numerous occasions, he now refuses to condemn the Belarusian regime so as not to upset Putin”.
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