Sveta 0.03 %
- Natallia Radzina
- 20.05.2026, 8:50
Belarusians passed judgment on political buffoons and impostors.
Two years ago I wrote that the office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya had reached the bottom with its "elections" to the so-called coordinating council. But today's election showed that these characters have become complete marginalized.
If last time 6700 people out of almost 7 million Belarusian voters took part in the adventure and voted, this time - 2100, i.e. 0.03%. Nothing helped: neither hysterical appeals of Tsikhanouskaya, Latushka and their subordinates, nor information service on the part of service media, nor big money for advertising, including that of Russian bloggers.
The result is quite natural, given that Tsikhanouskaya's office and its subordinate NGOs have long lost the trust of Belarusians because of numerous scandals, suspicions of corruption, negligence in working with data, because of which many of them ended up in the hands of the Belarusian special services, as well as infiltration by agents. What was worth one case of the speaker of the past "coordination council" Anzhalika Melnikava, who turned out to be a KGB officer and fled to Minsk with grant money.
Belarusians passed judgment on political impostors and buffoons and voted with their feet. Everything is legitimate. Only one thing is striking: the shamelessness and impudence of people who call themselves leaders of the Belarusian opposition. The former official Pavel Latushka, bloated with importance, proudly declared himself the winner of the "elections": 42 percent of 0.03 percent of those who took part in this farce voted for him. I was not lazy to count: as much as 0.0126% of Belarusians voted for Latushka and his associates!
In general, this time it was noticeable how difficult it was for Tihanovskaya's office to find participants in the pseudo-elections. Decent and sensible people refused to take part in this clownery. For the most part, those relying on Western grants and bums not willing to go to work and, I admit, a small part of naive people went for it. Although it seemed that by 2026 everyone had already realized that this council coordinates nothing and has no influence on anything.
It is hard to watch how Western money is spent, which could have been spent not on the comfortable life of Tsikhanouskaya and Latushka, their meaningless and useless "offices" and "councils", but on helping numerous refugees, political prisoners, and independent media. So many people, thrown out or forced to flee from Belarus, need real help today.
How is it not shameful to pretend to be "presidents", "ministers", "deputies" for so many years against the background of suffering of ordinary people? It feels like a complete tracing of Lukashenko and his junta. The differences, if there were any, have been erased by today.
And in conclusion about the irony of numbers. In 2020, Lukashenko was nicknamed "Sasha 3 percent" because of his paltry support in pre-election polls. Six years later, his accidental vis-a-vis Tsikhanouskaya, due to her own stupidity and cowardice, and with the help of a talentless entourage, has reached 0.03 percent support. With what I congratulate.
Natallia Radzina, editor-in-chief of Charter97.org.