“Resetting” Putin’s deadlines puts Lukashenko in a difficult situation
If the Constitutional Court considers the election of Vladimir Putin for a new term legal, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, who has recently torpedoed, under various pretexts, integration with Russia within the framework of the Union State project, will find himself in a difficult situation.
Political scientist Alexey Martynov stated this in a commentary to PolitNavigator.
“The only thing that can worry Belarus in this context is only the expansion and deepening of the project called the Union State of Russia and Belarus, which is actively being torpedoed by the modern Belarusian leadership and Lukashenko in particular.
In general, an amazing thing - we remember how, from his 25 years of permanent presidency, Lukashen, probably in the first 20 years, used rhetoric within himself that, they say, we are here for the expansion of the Union State and almost for a single space, and that’s all such, but “certain forces in Moscow are preventing us from expanding it,” hinting at some “destructive elements” in the Russian leadership.
Today the situation is exactly the opposite - at the moment when the Union State project approached the point of development when it is necessary to make political decisions to deepen and expand it, the Belarusian leadership did everything to prevent this from happening last year.
Everyone knows this, including Belarusian citizens, who in just a few months will have to choose their president. How Lukashenko will explain to them, his voters, this behavioral position of his, I don’t know. And the fact that our internal processes have nothing to do with Belarus, at least for now, is a fact,” Martynov said
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