Andrei Sannikau: Some mandarins of politics follow others

The dictator has appointed “scapegoats” to be responsible for the failures in the economy.

Andrei Sannikau, the leader of the civil campaign "European Belarus", stated that commenting on the staff shift in the Government, the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus and Lukashenka's Administration that had happened that day.

“It's clear why this has happened now. By order of Lukashenka those officials were dismissed who had denied that there was a crisis in Belarus and were trying to justify themselves through external circumstances. On the one hand, they said that the Belarusian economy could resist those external circumstances, on the other hand, they lied to people, saying that there would be no devaluation, Andrei Sannikau said. -These questions are good to comment on within the country where there are any laws, including economic ones, and where responsibility is carried by the people affecting the economy. In our case the Government affects nothing. Lukashenka is the only person to blame in the current situation. I think he realizes it, but he finds "scapegoats", being dismissed and shuffled from time to time.

The fact that one mandarin of politics follows another one in Lukashenka's regime, set up in Belarus, will not change anything. So it is useless to say that any changes in the Government will cause the same ones in the policy. On the contrary, it shows the helplessness of the dictator before serious challenges and the threat, which today arises from the Kremlin".

Andrei Sannikau underlined that after 2010 the year it was hard for Lukashenka to blame opposition for failures and miscalculations, so the "enemies" would be found among officials and nomenclature.

"It just doesn't pay to contemplate competencies of the appointed officials. They do not affect the change of course. Authorities will lead the country for further devaluation, further slackening of economic activity, even greater dependence on Russia. None of the appointed officials is able to advance the national interests of Belarus", Andrei Sannikau pointed out.