Stanislau Shushkevich: I don’t believe people, who have sunk into anti-electoral filth

• 26.10.2009, 11:13

Promises of electoral legislation “liberalization” are taken critically in Belarus.

Head of the Central Electoral Commission Lidziya Yarmoshyna said the amendments to the Electoral Code of Belarus, which are to be discussed at the autumn parliamentary session, are based on OSCE proposals following the results of the “parliamentary elections” 2008. The draft law hasn’t been prepared yet. How does the opposition take these promises of the authorities?

Stanislau Shushkevich, the former head of the Supreme Council of Belarus, said he didn’t know about the possible changes prepared by Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Lidziya Yarmoshyna:

“I can say even now that I don’t expect any changes from the people, who have sunk into anti-electoral filth, who say there’s no electoral legislation better than ours. There are proposals. Let’s wait for the changes. But I didn’t believe these people, don’t believe now, and wil hardly believe them,” Stanislau Shushkevich told in an interview to Radio Svaboda.

We remind that all electoral campaigns in Belarus since 1996 are recognized unfree and unfair by the international community. Thus, Lukashenka can’t be considered a legitimate president of Belarus since 1999. Nevertheless, he gained the right to be elected as many times as he wants as a result of the referendum 2004. The CEC head Yarmoshyna was banned entry to the EU and the US for rigging the results of elections and referendums.