Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko must accept the logic of democracy and quit power, French President Emmanuel Macron told le Journal du Dimanche.
Belarus, a former Soviet republic closely allied with Russia, has been rocked by street protests since authorities said Lukashenko won an Aug. 9 election by a landslide.
More than 12,000 protesters have been arrested since the election that the opposition denounced as rigged.
“We are witnessing a power crisis in Belarus with an authoritarian administration that is not able to accept democracy logic,” Macron said. “…It is clear that Lukashenko must go.”
Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei accused Western countries on Saturday of attempting to sow “chaos and anarchy” in the former Soviet republic.
Hypocrisy is a word which does not exist in the vocabulary of liberals. How can he publicly say these words while he is being contested and protested for YEARS now by the Yellow Vests?
And what did he do about them? He sent the brutes (the police) to go and smash the heads of the French people.
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