Only after entering the fight, the Belarusian oppositionists began to bait each other
The main goal of the anti-Lukashenko opposition in Belarus is the coming to power of ex-banker Viktor Babariko, who was not registered as a presidential candidate and is in jail.
This became clear from yesterday’s YouTube speech by the head of Babariko’s headquarters, Maria Kolesnikova, who formally supported the technical candidate of the opposition, housewife Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
She began her appeal by gently “putting down” the husband of her comrade Tikhanovskaya (Svetlana put forward her candidacy after her husband, blogger Sergei, was arrested).
“Sergei Tikhanovsky has become the personification of a clear and understandable threat to the regime. Street resistance is what the authorities have been preparing for all this time. Absolutely expected and understandable, he was quickly removed from the political board. The current government and the traditional opposition are captives of stereotyped thinking, which is inherent in our education system and Soviet upbringing,” Kolesnikova said.
The “sacrality of the 1917 revolution”, in which, according to her version, the authorities and the opposition believe, Babariko’s staff officer contrasted with “non-violence of regime change”. That is why, Kolesnikova believes, her boss was “incomprehensible to political strategists and other people of fantastic professions.”
She showered Babariko with compliments, casually passing around her other ally Valery Tsepkalo.
“A banker, rich, working in a bank owned by Russians, overweight and not showy - a very weak figure, according to the authorities. Even Valery Tsepkalo, a strong system leader associated with IT, looked much better,” Kolesnikova said.
She stated that Babariko was ahead of other alternative candidates because he proposed “love against threat, politeness against rudeness, sincerity against lies, peace against war and the threats of the Maidan.”
She admitted that “everything may not be decided by elections” and set up her supporters for a long protest.
“The regime can cope with the square, but it cannot cope with the long, regular and varied protest of the majority. He has two options left. Either reforms and allowing people to govern, or become an openly police state - a minority opposing the majority without all these tents, Central Election Commissions and other Potemkin villages. But reforms require courage, and a police state requires money. The regime has neither one nor the other,” Kolesnikova concluded.
It is worth noting that her speech was more convincing than today’s speech on Belarusian television by candidate Tikhanovskaya, although it is obvious that now both ladies use the services of the same speechwriters.
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