Lawyer demands mental health examination for Belarusian dictator

Harry Pahanyaila demands to form a special commission to carry out medical examination of the dictator and launch a procedure of his dismissal from office.

The famous lawyer moved this proposal to the “council of the republic” and the “house of representatives” of the “national assembly”, “Narodnaya volya” newspaper reports.

TV programmes of NTV and Channel One, Russian TV channels, said the President of the Republic of Belarus suffered from a mental disorder, “moderate mosaic psychosis with prevailing features of paranoid and antisocial personality disorder”. The TV programmes referred to the published research by psychiatrist Shchyhelski from Hrodna.

In 2001, he addressed the people of Belarus and the international community via the media (“Pahonya” and “Nasha Svaboda” newspapers) from a sense of professional ethics and duty informing that Alyaksandr Lukashenka suffered from mental illness and was not able to hold the presidential post.

“I’d like to turn your attention that specialists at Moscow Serbsky Institute, Russia’s leading medical institution in this field, (S. Vasyukov and V. Morosanova) confirmed the accuracy and scientific methods of Shchyhelski’s research and do not exclude that Lukashenka can be diagnosed with the above mentioned mental disorder. The Russian TV channels that can be watched also in Belarus spread this information,” Harry Pahanyaila wrote in his address to the “national assembly”. “In the absence of clear and objective data that can refute the fact that Lukashenka has mental illness proving his persistent disability to perform duties as president on health grounds, his re-election for another term mustn’t be allowed and the parliament must immediately launch a procedure provided for by part 1 of article 88 of the Constitution.

A notice: in accordance with part 1 of article 88 of the Constitution of the Republic f Belarus, “The President of the Republic of Belarus may be prematurely removed from office where he is persistently incapable to discharge his duties on account of the state of his health.”