Belarus.- Opposition Svetlana Tijanóvskaya, a rival in the presidential term of the authoritarian representative of Belarus, took refuge in Lithuania on Tuesday after a second night of violently suppressed and dead-ended protests against power. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius told the AFP that Tijanóvskaya was “safe” in his country, a neighbor of Belarus.
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On Monday night, his team indicated that he could not locate the opponent since he had left the electoral commission, where he was held for several hours and to which he had been directed to file a complaint for voter fraud.
Svetlana Tijanóvskaya also had to be arrested on Saturday. Afp
Svetlana 37-year-old rookie in politics emerged in a few weeks as an unexpected rival for Lukashenko, 65, the last 26 in power. This English teacher replaced her husband Sergey, a well-known videobloguero, arrested in May in the presidential race. After Sunday’s election, Lukevskaya urged Lukashenko to “cede power,” stating that she did not recognize the official results that gave the president the winner with 80.08% of the vote, against 10% for her.
Election protests were not fully expected. Afp
However, he refused to take part in the hard-won demonstrations on Sunday and Monday night by security forces, who resorted to sound grenades and rubber bullets and made numerous arrests to end the protests in Minsk.On Tuesday they were circulating on social media called for a general strike. On Monday night, barricades were erected in the central streets of Minsk, in a sign of increased tensions, and several explosions were heard.
President Lukashenko won the presidential election with 80.23% of the vote. Afp
One protester was killed when an explosive object exploded in his hands that he wanted to throw at law enforcement, according to the Belarusian police.” Shame!” the protesters chanted, who confronted the police with sticks and their own hands, according to AFP journalists and witnesses. In recent days, the authorities stepped up efforts to stop Tijanóvskaya and did not hesitate to detain a dozen of his collaborators. One of his allies, Veronika Tsepkalo, wife of an opponent who was prevented from participating in the presidential election, left Belarus on Sunday and settled in Russia.
Discontent with the election brought together hundreds of security forces. Afp
That night after the election, 3,000 detainees, as well as half a hundred civilians and 39 policemen wounded following spontaneous demonstrations in 33 locations, according to the Interior Ministry.Lukashenko called the protesters “sheep” remote from London, Warsaw and Prague, and said that he would not let his country be “shattered.” By 2010, after the presidential election, opposition demonstrations had been brutally suppressed. In the West, the White House said Monday to be “deeply concerned” and urged the authorities to allow anti-government demonstrations amid allegations of fraud.
Intimidation by opposition candidates and the detention of peaceful protesters” were some of the many factors that “fogged the process,” Said President Donald Trump’s press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.Previously, the European Commission, as well as France, Germany and the United Kingdom, and NATO, had condemned the crackdown. Poland called for an EU summit devoted to this issue. Instead, Russian and Chinese leaders, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, and Venezuelan Nicolas Maduro, congratulated President Lukashenko.You May Be Interested: Bear Assaults a Pizza Delivery Car in Alaska and Doesn’t Steal PizzaMany 103-year-old gets his first tattoo after leaving quarantineVideo shows Florida cops trying to handcuff an 8-year-old
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