Belarusian ruler doesn’t want to be «union» premier

• 18.12.2007, 11:26

Sergei Markov, Russian political analyst and the United Russia deputy in the State Duma, said Russia’s president Vladimir Putin suggested his Belarusian colleague a position of a vice president in case of declaration of the so called “union state” of Belarus and Russia. But Alyaksandr Lukashenka refused, the Russian political analyst noted.

“Alyaksandr Lukashenka wishes he would become a president of big united state, he had had real chances for that in Yeltsin’s time. But he has no such chances if presidents are Putin or Medvedev. It is known, he was offered posts of prime minister or vice president, but he wasn’t satisfied with it. He wanted to be prime minister and vice president, in other words “parallel president,” simultaneously. But Moscow is not ready for that. So this question is in limbo,” Sergei Markov said in the interview to BelaPAN.