“We should always not shift our duties to ladies. I like ladies, I don’t diminish their function in any respect. However they need to be there for us to lean on, a robust shoulder.”
Lukashenko, who is working for an additional time period within the nation’s upcoming Jan. 26 presidential election, might have been referring to his rival within the earlier 2020 vote, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.
Tsikhanouskaya ran for president after her husband, a number one opposition candidate, was arrested and jailed throughout that election marketing campaign. The vote sparked mass protests that almost induced Lukashenko’s downfall — however that had been finally crushed in a brutal Russia-backed marketing campaign to suppress opponents.
Now dwelling in exile, Tsikhanouskaya is the principle face of the pro-democracy opposition. She has urged Belarusians to “reject this farce” as a result of “it’s a sham with no actual electoral course of, performed in an environment of terror.”
However that doesn’t bother Lukashenko, who additionally claimed in his Thursday remarks that an individual doesn’t turn into president however is “born to be president.”
“An individual by nature will need to have fundamental qualities that shall be helpful to him as president.”
Along with possessing such qualities, Lukashenko additionally strengthened his energy in January by signing a legislation guaranteeing himself immunity, lifelong safety and state-provided property upon his resignation from the presidency.