MINSK, 2 November (BelTA) – It is a mistake to succumb to emotions in politics, Director - Editor-in-Chief of the Belarus Segodnya publishing house Dmitry Zhuk said in the Editors' Club program on the Belarus 1 TV channel, BelTA informs.
“In the situation we are now, it is very important for us to understand that it is wrong to let emotions influence political choices,” Dmitry Zhuk is convinced.
The participants of the program cited the situation in Ukraine as a case in point: Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a bright presidential campaign, but his rating dropped significantly during the year in power, and the Servant of the People political party failed in the local elections in Ukraine. “Even the positive, good emotions that Zelenskyy showed during the presidential race did not do any good to the citizens of Ukraine,” the director of the publishing house stated.
The Editor-in-Chief of Selskaya Gazeta Sergei Mikhovich said that Volodymyr Zelenskyy had not done anything for the economy and people of his country, but “amidst his ruins he dares to teach Belarus”.
Protests in Poland were also discussed in the program. Chairman of the Belarusian State Television and Radio Company Ivan Eismont believes that their reasons are much deeper than just the fight against the abortion ban. “Not all Poles like the fact that Law and Justice [a conservative political party in Poland - BelTA's note] has practically seized power. What they did: thanks to the support of President Duda, they received the entirety of power (legislative, executive), passed a bill that strengthened control over public media and television, curtailed the autonomy of courts, pushed their people into the Constitutional Court, nationalized the elites, and called the rich enemies. The people in power are extremely religious and nationalistic,” he said.
Speaking about additional reasons for the crisis in Poland, the panelists named vote rigging in the recent presidential election, a split in the country over political views, a blow to private business (the adoption of the law to restrict trade on Sundays), a ban on the breeding of fur animals which hit farmers, and mistakes in the fight against the pandemic.
“Probably, the accumulation of these issues led to the explosion that we see today,” Dmitry Zhuk concluded.
“Certain Polish decision-makers, political parties, movements got a false idea that they should oversee their neighbors and tell them what to do on behalf of Washington or someone else. For some reason, they have long been against Russia, now they are against Belarus. It has backfired,” the editor-in-chief of Selskaya Gazeta added.
