The CEC chairperson claims she was permitted to the EU to only be threatened. However, authoritie will behave “aggressively” in case of provocations.
The chairperson of Belarus’ Central Election Commission Lidzija Jarmoshyna said the opposition was preparing for the mass of provocations at the parliamentary elections on September 23.
“There will be a lot of provocations and scandals at these elections. Moreover, every action of the authorities and election commissions will always be appealed,” said Lidzija Jarmoshyna in an interview with Belarusian TV on July 16.
The CEC Chairperson believes that in this way opposition would provoke the authorities to aggression. “It will be a nervous election campaign. It would be focused to get us all out of patience, so that we could forget in a rush somewhere and sometime, perhaps, behave more aggressively,” she said.
According to Ms. Jarmoshyna, “we will make every effort and try to calmly respond to such questions.”
Lidzija Jarmoshyna was interviewed right after her return to Minsk from Vienna, where she, along with the heads of the Central Executive Committee of the CIS countries had participated in the OSCE meeting on democratic elections and election monitoring despite of the fact Lidzija Jarmoshyna s under EU visa ban and she is not allowed to entry into Schengen zone.
Commenting on her participation in the meeting, Lidzija Jarmoshyna said that the OSCE had invited her to “lecture her personally.”
It was the first visit of Lidzija Jarmoshyna to the European Union for 8 years.
Lidzija Jarmoshyna noted that it allowed her to think “that the meeting had an aim. It was once again to threaten shaking a finger, to lecture those states in which, according to the OSCE, there is not very much democracy.”
“So I think that I was finally permitted to enter [the EU] to be personally lectured,” she noted.
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