Find a way to reach out to voters still affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic follow us elections aljazeera. I am from you ok youre watching history ellerys president Alexander Lukashenko is facing the most intense opposition since he came to power 26 years ago is what demonstrators had to say about him on sunday. I came out here because of the injustice and the sly lies from the media lies from the president lies from all the government organizations leading us i want change i want freedom and to live in a free country i dont want my children to leave and live here and raise their children and help the economy of our country of. 2 the peoples voice has been stolen and we want to restore justice all of us here thats why im here we want new real elections and genuine elections in our country thats why im here. Unpacking the politics in better response what were going to be doing today with your help of course nukes you jump into the comments and you too can be in the street. I am going to say hello to the guest the guests will introduce themselves hello how welcome to the screen thank you her home here mainly with her member upon i am leaving in spain. And. I mean its our and i am especially International Relations of europe. Thank you for being with us hello lets yeah welcome to the street hi my name is ali said it nic and there i represent the center for new ideas where i work a Research Fellow its. Based think tank i also represent the recent aspirate sweden where im currently based thank you for having your so very very welcome get the what do we need to know about you before we get this conversation started introduce yourself. Growing some consider National Action or a revolution political analysts and current the base 2 kids and i work with the brother sure institute for strategic studies. Welcome catalina and ana if you had to do a hate line today that summed up what is happening in eloise what would your headlines. And headline would say they are so elect president bush going back because they see the more Decisive Action against the protesters and basically you say that since the late start on this monday the out story was not heard this were even their power and what are you seeing today so far i mean by their wrists by the air oppressions by the thread by the threatening to the to the futures. He is already striking back so they hire segues by the yourself strikes that elicit could you explain joins nationally as weve been following these headlines since the elections in early august but how do we get to this point where a president whos been in power for 26 years is now having his power challenged. Thats basically a combination of the fact that combines the reaction all for thought is to pandemic failure to manage the comic crisis and to guide the country from that nation period to some Bright Future so we are basically see that society got quite angry for being unable to manage both demick and economic crisis plus we saw some brilliant figures appearing on the lower. Oppositional stage which are problems which are the figures are. Represented from the kinds of shows this is a banker and this is a blogger and this is the former elites representative so this is a great. National revival that i would see that we are observing today and people just got tired angry and they saw that window of opportunity they saw the lead in power as they saw the lead in. Candidates who are actually able to help the nation to contribute to a country is a democrat is a show i want to bring in another voice and this is from anastacio who spoke to us a little bit earlier on the stream shes in minsk. The reason i dont seem to describe and prosecute it is speaking on the comic to be close to them was an unwritten cast into some production people to change over the last couple weeks which kind of bill abilities concrete disregarding the difference congress you have to work Office Employees and students all you need to be and you better future. Can we know how he characterized the protest movement it is Even Movement the right word to describe what is happening right now. I would say that we observe the awake you know of the nation in the sense that bell or shins who are coming to the streets they come from very different backgrounds and the protest movement itself is literal last 3 years no one clear leader calling for where to go to court in a demonstration groups and this just comes from the general dissatisfaction of people with the status quo with this consistent existence of the search area for shame in which politicians lived for 26 years and people carrying out their National Flags which are currently sort of outlawed in where forbidden essentially by a local chain code because they were considered as the sign of the opposition you can see those whites and red flecks. When he came to power he changed the National Symbolics to the soviet style one and the very fact of carrying this kind of. Black on the streets was illegal you can have terrible swiss police and thats interesting that people spontaneously bring the symbolic to the streets again and i would say that that symbolic was changed on constitutional referendum back in 1905 and 6. But at that time he posted also a bunch of other questions which allowed him on that referendum which allowed him to consolidate his powers to push towards closer integration with russia and i would say that now better since right claiming back their their democracy and also they spent 10 years to bring this a National Historic symbols which go back to middle ages history. Ok let me let me share this with you this is from. What she had to william nice to have you in the conversation and weve says should it be a new election how can we ensure its free and fair who wants to take that and im volunteering the it should there be a tree i dont have to take money away. I think. Where the neural action should take place because of course most of course many people. Shout so theyre in the squares and they voted for to one of many people or to force atlanta to her mosque. To be of to become a president but we cannot know that she according to our law that the president should get his due process i think thats one percent so we. Were destroyed and the elections were falsified when the bulletins were destroyed and they have proofs of there we cannot believe completely sure that she got 50 plus one percent that is why i think that the election showed that late. To make the arrest months ago theres enough to make them reckon so reconcile it and make them the. Last nation i think that part of compromise may be here and selfproclaimed president. Should participate in these elections again because so it is his people people will or will not want for him and he goes by of course in this my plan the free election of a central election media and other state organizations that help us survive alexion should be removed from the process and the election should be completely fair with the International Observer mission of the of the e. C. And. And other patients so all this. Election should change but im standing with the point that there should be. Yes let me share with you what president shimko audience said it that we cant this is why he said he he needs to be where he is right now is have a listen he would have crashed the alexion was fair here if there was someone else to win i would have accepted another winner not just but it was clear that sandusky did not make it through me which if you have read her manifesto i know Alexander Lukashenko is our only president. That was a christian because i came here because i feel sorry for my motherland which they want to take away from we will not give the motherland away to any of the thats why we are here i would like to wish Alexander Grigori original question called good with allah help for that he will delight us for more than another 5 year president s return and will take care of our hero. Was. To those in the voices of supporters of presently schenk and now hes president shankar doublecross we will question the question isnt about lucas schenkel today ive had my fill of the president ial brad but imagine for a minute that lucas sankoh isnt here do you know who would be commanding the military forces on the western border just imagine for one minute in front of whom with the defense minister be standing to attention and reporting to you that we would no longer be the masters here we would have been broken down and spat out. You see i think i just want to get a sense of what is happening in terms of Living Conditions social conditions in belarus im look at a headline here for instance 500. 00 for everyone below us leaders soviet style economy whereas the emphasis on voters is not playing into what is happening right now the streets. I believe thats the question ive been unable to leave to sort of accomplish his promises that he gave during the last 26 years and major league has been just Pure Research its been just populism that has not resulted in any significant significant or tangible results that he was prominent to the population of the truth but if you love me i would like to get back and insert my points to the hamas discussion on. What she mentioned how can we prove that the a look like a did not win the election for the move the Reason Online platform created by the opposition and the platform has recently published a report on line that actually indicate a number of violations at Different Police stations that actually prove that atlanta had also won and those particular cooling stations flooded as we can also serve that she was not necessarily win in the election but she was definitely making it to the 2nd tor to the 2nd trend of that action and as an example i was a part of initiatives of exits pool conducted abroad and recently abroad coordinated their initiatives where they. Where they interviewed older voters that voted a bros in the embassy it and there are a selection was around the around 40000 people and the importance of this report says that one tunnel to one with almost 90 percent. Among those 40000 people of course we understand that this is slightly different picture from belarus and put it inside the country but at the same time its a present thats quite a big amount of the rusev who would usually ignore that election or vote for the 2nd they do vote for to come up with that and there are there indications such as. Because published on social media by certain individuals or collections of those pictures the bin laden. Courier contributed in that report that being collected by the oppositional platform goalless or vote in english and there i believe that the significance that the reason the proof that a question of did not win this election and the fact that their operatives have tried to destroy a vote in ballots today is just demonstrating that they are not ready to arrange recount of the votes they are rather weak to recognize the fact that the election was breached and of course its even more value to this argument that the election voters was not free animal. These are have a lot of questions for you and you chief im going to ask you to be quite 6 seat in your responses so that we can have my international his understand what is going on in belarus it will she wants to vaguely for instance says is there any progress in meeting protesters demands to the arena you go with or. Share so i would say that code does not trick ignites the opposition in his rhetoric he only uses diminishing warts thats regards to slanted to. And in fact yesterday when he was signed on the helicopter over his residency in the desert observing the crowds were standing in front of this president ial residency keeping yours towards Something Like oh those threats ran away. And this kind of illustrates his attitude towards the opposition and the protesters and moreover he and his team well and criminal investigation into the existence of the court nation council. Which now supports and effect represents her in valorous as a consolidated Opposition Force and moreover today to remember some things council were detained at the factory where they were meeting with the striking workers so all those signals and on top signal that he is no close to a recognized in our heaven any kind of negotiations with the protesters im not being Straight Line and i cannot ask because as an Opposition Leader she feels she senses and she comes across as being somewhat weve got to be a leader i want a little clip from her because we have huge huge questions about whether she is ready to take on this well lets have a listen to her festival. To all these compare and i was pushed myself forward and forward and i dont see myself in politics now no im not a politician and but so is this is my fate now and this is my 1st mission so i. Dont have a right to step away i have to continue i have to. You know to take this mission and not to nor to leave it to just having the right hand out briefly for this one this is be cash because youre afraid in the event of reelection that a shanley inexperienced person could be holding a great amount of power. Well because from the ability of people to the center of means and again having no demonstrating our president or their i phone. In their i exposed question new york him we are not afraid of anything. Or anyone taking power we just. Basically we want him gone and then in the new election of the belief that we look. This british and the suppose to work for dissipate in in in the in the elections before getting arrested. They will they will participate and of course maybe somebody will win maybe some from the ordination carinthia or 70 over because there are so many. Political characters we do have political elites that its not uprising but its what we do have it and i dont think that. Will give this place an attempt to have enough competent and. Bullet politicians with a good education the would atheists and so i have personally i dont dont have this fear i thought. We spoke to sophia all your skill took him out what happens next in bella reese these sources have a listen. No matter what location does next he lost his legitimacy a long time ago and the same time to plan and you know stay is not laying a claim to the presidency and the only way who can hold onto power right now is by deployment of force but this my thing to do would be to take on the offer of International Mediators just a salinity dialogue between the National Coronation counseling and. Recognize august 9th elections and isnt valid and a whole new free inferior president ial elections with International Observation i should add that we did on the stream try to reach out to the president s office is winning then we should everybody has joined that you wrote for the guardian and the story that you wrote for the guardian and its about Alexander Lukashenko will do anything to cling on to power does anything me. So this essentially means that he does not have any other options for him or them to stay in power thats not only due to his political ambitions which kept looking shrink when power and light allow him to reelect himself at the rigged elections for 26 years but also that in those years there were a bunch of violations of the law and. Such as disappearance kiss possible meddling or involvement into disappearance of his political opponents conducting an unconstitutional referendum and unlawfully consolidating power. Except. Conducting Human Rights Violations and in detrick arent just steps away possibly if he was not able to hold this president ial secret he will lose his immunity and that he will have to face some sort of their tripping over investigation and that that case not only his future is in question but also his closer political circle and of his family and now his face in this choice thats not so much about the helping of the nation or even not so much about his personal ambitions but about what happens next if he steps away if he does not hold this grip on power. And if you could describe the mood of the people around you the mood. I was super people actually are satisfied because of yesterdays demonstration. Demonstration got there about 270 people. And in the regions as well. It was quite useful there was no serious serious accidents after that we literally saw all of the helicopter in the sky and then we saw this. Film to. A field of the there they are moore and his son as well and we realized people realize their actions actually do have. To have result because before when people like 15 consecutive days of this war protests there were some some you know small always small. Small reaction from the authorities our base this time we understood that look really afraid and we understood that that the people on the street understood that they really are representing some force that look at shankar of course he tries to humiliate he tries. To do he strikes by us anyway somewhere in this sense of instinct he has this anymore x. Instead of 0 and he turned it on yesterday when he asked is this hour with these threats still here or Something Like this and its the same time people are afraid people are afraid to just. Read so many stories of tortures in Different Reasons and we have only 4 confirmed 4 or 5. And god knows. How much not erm and people are scared but people still tellin airbrake day they repeat this every day because after 26 years belarusians finally realize that nobody can change anything but that im watching the news develop and beginning of the week and im seeing some more International Figures being involved in belarus jonathan millens is thinking about an e. U. Strategy is have a listen to john vause they have expressed statements of concern about tapping batteries at the present moment the European Union have not been able to match their actions with their ambitions targeted this to sanctions is very narrow its not broader in economic terms than our offering the opposition the protesters the Grassroots Movement thats developed in batteries any sort of european destiny or european caustics so therefore the e. U. Has shown itself to be either unwilling or able to support and find their own ambitions is fascinating because our own new chief we have asked to transfer pass saying please the European Union mass stop interfering its. A difference of opinion that you cheap thank you for your questions and guests alessia it alina thank you for your thoughtful answers and helping us unpack what is happening in bell arrays it changes the date on a day really because it is a. Like to me a case study of. And the disease because 50 percent of all deaths of children. Likely to receive childhood education. Leaves us to. Try. To. Seize. A face can tell a story without uttering a single one. And knowing its. A simple tough. Inform us. The Un Convention manatee have life witnessed through the lens of the human mind. Is what inspires us. Witness documentaries on aljazeera. More than 7 decades ago a country was split into a big break with destiny and now the time comes to be. 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