The Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus abandoned May Day and rallies on May 1. This was reported by the ONT TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the chairman of the FPB, Mikhail Orda, “today is the case when you need to show your solidarity in a different way: not with noisy, crowded holidays and concerts, but by joining forces in the fight against the spread of the pandemic.”
The question remains: will the country's President Alexander Lukashenko cancel the Victory Day parade. Conducting a review of troops on May 9, in defiance of all neighbors in the CIS who “succumbed to coronavirus disease,” has already become an idefix for Old Man.
Russia and China previously officially refused to send their battalions to the parade in Minsk.
Even Lukashenko’s local subordinates have become bolder and are going against the will of the president. The city of Baranovichi decided not to celebrate Victory Day this year.
In Minsk itself, two parade rehearsals have already been canceled this week. According to rumors - due to infections in the honor guard company and the women's battalion. However, the Belarusian Ministry of Defense is not officially giving up.
“At the moment there are no changes regarding the military parade on May 9,” Natalya Gavrusik, a representative of the Ministry of Defense, told TUT.BY.
The next parade drills are scheduled for May 5 and 6. The dress rehearsal date has not yet been announced.
Everything points to Lukashenko that the parade needs to be cancelled. Let the president brush aside the morbidity curve in Belarus, which has risen sharply, but infections are already following on his personal heels. After positive tests were detected in the presidential administration and in the amateur hockey team in which Alexander Lukashenko plays, the coronavirus struck two priests of the monastery in the village of Malye Lyady, where Old Man preached on Easter about the “road to the temple” open to everyone.
There was also a material incentive to refuse the parade: the European Union announced that Belarus would receive 60 million euros to fight the coronavirus, but only if it follows WHO recommendations
However, so far only the Presidential Orchestra of Belarus is complying with the self-isolation requirements. He gives his next concert online.