“It will be worse than in Venezuela” - political scientist on Lukashenko’s prospects
The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, against the backdrop of a miserably lost information campaign, has himself confused the story around the elections to such an extent that it is no longer possible to reverse the situation.
Russian political scientist Oleg Matveychev stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In Belarus there are “traditional reasons” for revolution. Please: there is no corruption, there are no oligarchs, there are no bad roads, no pension reforms, etc. There are no such problems. Just like problems with crime, with raiding, with a bunch of different things, with social affairs. There is no such poverty there, because they try to balance everything.
The question is that he simply, as the saying goes, missed a claw and the whole bird was gone – he let all sorts of Internet channels go, he let the media go, he let all kinds of Polish NGOs work in his place, all these Adenauer foundations worked in his place - it’s all over for you!” - said the expert.
“It's a web. This fly thinks that if it flew past the web and its wing was touched, it will now flap its wings, tear the web and fly away. And it seems that this is a trifle and nonsense, but it is becoming more and more confused, and we see how Lukashenko has become even more confused in this election story.
Either he caught these “Wagnerites”, although it was just a Ukrainian scam, then he arrested our banks, it’s unclear what he did, and he still cannot understand what is happening to him,” added Matveychev.
“The best case scenario is if he turns this situation into a Venezuelan version, and it’s like Maduro and Guaido, they’ll stand opposite each other for a whole year and that’s it. And so, everything is heading towards something worse,” the political scientist predicted.
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