President of Belarus Alexander LukashenkoMINSK, Jan 18President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the future heads of state are already «practically visible», and stressed that the Belarusian society has changed since the mid-1990s and will not elect random people for president. «We have clearly decided: the current generation … should go to spare way, to enable the new generation to come quietly, without noise, without dust, starting from the bottom, from the middle, from above, to power. We (the current generation of managers — ed.) should not conflict with it. We should, observing, direct there, where you need to. To do this, you need to have leverage. Here it is: the All-Belarusian People's Assembly and so on. The current president is not eternal, new people will come. Who will they be? Listen, well, future presidents in our country, they are practically visible,» he said. Lukashenka on Tuesday in Minsk at a meeting on the results of the nationwide discussion of the draft amendments to the constitution. The video fragment of the event was published by the Pool of the First Telegram channel close to the press service of the head of the Belarusian state. According to him, «it will not be like this president was elected in 1994.» “Then everyone was stunned, didn’t know what to do, they saw the growing corruption, banditry… People needed some kind of salvation – so they stuck in Lukashenka… the chairman of the (parliamentary) anti-corruption commission – I spoke there openly, honestly, no one unafraid. They stumbled upon it quite by accident — they elected it. Now this will not happen. Now the people are cunning, life is not the same,» Lukashenka believes. something experience.» «The society is different. Thinking about electing a random (president — ed.), as it used to be in the mid-90s, will no longer exist. People will already elect consciously,» Lukashenka continued.
«The Constitution — I wrote it myself.» What Lukashenka prepared for his successor»For this moment, we need a (new — ed.) constitution: we need normal people to come to power, so that we don’t bite our elbows later, that we could fix something, but we didn’t leave leverage. If civilized — then the All-Belarusian People's Assembly should play this role. This is a concept from life: the current generation leaves behind some levers of control,» he said. However, Lukashenka drew attention to the importance of preventing dual power. In his opinion, the All-Belarusian People's Assembly, as a people's council, should somehow restrain the president, all authorities, but «it should not dominate the president and his powers.» It is planned that the constitutional referendum in Belarus will be held in the second half of February 2022. The draft amendments to the constitution, prepared by a specially created commission and working group, were published for public discussion at the end of December. A nationwide discussion of the project precedes the referendum. Belarusians can send their proposals on the document to any state bodies. The draft amendments to the constitution provide that the All-Belarusian People's Assembly will become the highest representative body of democracy in Belarus, will approve the foundations of the domestic and foreign policy of Belarus, the military doctrine, and the concept of the country's national security. The draft provides that the president can be removed from office by the All-Belarusian People's Assembly in the event of a systematic or gross violation of the constitution or the commission of treason or other grave crime. >Lukashenko answered the question about the successor
