MINSK, 8 January (BelTA) – The latest episode of the documentary series Time Chose Us aired by the TV channel Belarus One explained peculiarities of the presidential election held in Belarus in 2015, BelTA has learned.
The presidential election campaign was the most important domestic political event of the year 2015. The situation in Ukraine vividly demonstrated what can happen to a country if authorities drop the ball. During the presidential election of the year 2015 Aleksandr Lukashenko won 83.47% of the vote.
“In the West leaders like Aleksandr Lukashenko are commonly referred to as founding fathers of the nation. Like Abraham Lincoln in America. Look at Ukraine: there are many presidents over there, but there is no one who can be called a founding father. But at the beginning any state, not only Belarus, needs a figure with a historical vision, with a historical mission. This is why I believe that the Belarusian leader helped the nation find its identity in a difficult moment, develop the national culture and the image of the country. Plus, he introduced it to the world arena,” said the sociologist, Doctor of Political Science (Austria) Christian Herpfer.
Later on experts called this election the calmest one in Belarus’ history. Even reports from “skeptics” from the OSCE and PACE were positive.
“An attempt at coup d’etat was committed during the previous presidential election in Belarus. By all appearances your European ‘friends’ don’t mind Belarus much right now. They are busy organizing coups and wars in other places. Nevertheless, this election will demonstrate how much aggression Europe is losing with regard to Belarus. Which means aggression against us [Russia] in the future,” said the Russian public figure Mikhail Delyagin, Doctor of Economics, head of the Globalization Problems Institute (2015), while talking about the presidential election of 2015.
Nevertheless, timid attempts to destabilize the situation were made. Right after the polling stations were closed, the opposition attempted to organize a rally, which evolved into a march no one was interested in. City residents did not support it.
You can learn even more about significant and vivid events of the past years in BelTA’s YouTube-project “How it was: DOC”.
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