Soviet nostalgists welcome Lukashenko`s decision to call referendum :: Charter'97 :: News

An association named "For the Union and the Communist Party of the Union" (UCPU), has issued a statement to welcome Aleksandr Lukashenko’s decision to call a national referendum on the possibility for him to run for reelection. The association says that the proposed amendment to the constitution, if passed in the October 17 referendum, would allow Mr. Lukashenko, "the man who has showed with his selfless work that he fulfills his pre-election promises, who has lifted the republic out of the morass of an all-out crisis, to compete on equal footing with other candidates.”

Mr. Lukashenko “has clearly showed that he is able to exercise reasonably, resolutely and at the same time carefully the sweeping powers that the people have entrusted him with, find and confidently implement efficient solutions to problems that inevitably occur in the life of society,” the UCPU says.

“The president’s patriotic policy has been keeping the country from turning into a dominion of Western capitalists and Russian tycoons,” the statement says.

In addition, the UCPU notes, Mr. Lukashenko’s move to call the referendum “is absolutely in line with law and adequate with regard to the root interests of the Belarusian people.”

The UCPU expresses hope that "the citizens of Belarus will go to ballot boxes on October 17 to support as before their national president in their own interests and in the interests of the public.”