Foreign
FOUR years after the presidential election in Belarus was widely condemned as fraudulent, Lithuania on Friday re-echoed its support for neighbour’s democracy movement.
“We believe in democratic future of Belarus. Freedom spirit always prevails,’’ President Gitanas Nausėda wrote on X.
The Foreign Ministry in Vilnius also underlined the Baltic republic’s “strictly uncompromising stance towards the illegitimate regime’’ of long-term Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko.
In the polls on Aug. 9, 2020, Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, was again declared the winner, sparking protests in Belarus.
Many see opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya as the winner of the ballot in the former Soviet republic.
Tsikhanouskaya fled after the election to EU member Lithuania, where she is building contacts with a kind of government-in-exile in the event of a change of power in her home country.
She was recently confirmed by the democracy movement as its leader until the next democratic elections in Belarus. (dpa/NAN)
A.I
Aug. 9, 2024
Tags: Alexander Lukashenko.
